Here I stay

by Jo Goode

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Here I Stay

"I smudged the map of everyday;" Mayakovsky

Kevin

and

Kat

Walk

down the hall,

the first day I have seen

them like that

Two people displaced from

their escape

victims of the town that pulls

its children back

or never lets them

go

A jamais vu look at my

city is required

to keep strings from slicing my wrists

I become known by

sight as a citizen.

Reinventions are hard

when your car breaks

apart on a different roads

separation can't find it.