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Sub Rosa
Poems
Sep 2013
Renewed Identity
I forgot my name.
Those syllables chosen for me at birth
by people i had never seen before,
strangers I had never met.
I forgot the sound the letters make
when slurred together on someone's tongue,
squished against the backs of their teeth
What was the noun they used to scream
when they needed a scapegoat?
What was the noise they used to cry
when they needed a hiding place?
What was that odd combination of letters
they always took for granted?
I don't remember.
That isn't me anymore.
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