Posts tagged "teenager"
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Excavation
Where I dig into my archives and repost stuff I like. This one's from April 2005. Wherever I go, I am not allowed to forget – how perfectly crisp and displaced my unaccented English is. If there is an accent it is not one you can pin down. To my countrymen it betrays my independent school upbringing, a way of life,…
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Release
Where I dig into my archives and repost stuff I like. This one's from 2005. like the foreign worker who, having spent six days of every week, fifty one weeks of every year, building for a country that is not his, listening to languages that are not his, but whose greatest pleasure comes from talking every Sunday in his…
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Two Weeks
Some weird poetry from 2003, when I was a wee child. two weeks before and the morning after all that mattered was not what really happened where it brings us now, or what a gamble we'd just taken. It was you planting your signature hasty goodbye sweetie on my cheeks in the elevator just before the doors opened to my…
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