once upon a twin by Raymond Luczak

Author:Raymond Luczak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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sure i survived but at what price

for sure it was steeper

than any down payment on any house

id have cared to own

so no home ever of my own

i was always a tenant

here were the terms of my lease with every foster family

in exchange for using their house

sitting with them at their family meals

sleeping in a room upstairs where i cant decorate

practicing fake smiles at pretend brothers

celebrating my birthdays with strangers

knowing their names but never partaking

in their own family histories

theyd just put up with me

the nasalsounding boy that i am

just be a good good boy

with those amazing hearing aids

never expect anything of anyone

in this way id learned to be afraid

of being myself with anyone

in ironwood i was awash

with nightmares of eviction

where else could i go

if my own family had made it clear

i didnt quite fit in with

the puzzle of their lives

i was a missing piece

i was too weirdly shaped

my body was too gangly worse

yet my chest started to develop swirls of fur

then my back started to grow hairy too

my exterior was starting to catch up

to the beast already growing inside

until my expensive porcelain face

fractured from the snarling

i am now a serpent tongue of hiss

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