postscript

this poem has been on my mind ever since i read it in junot diaz’s “drown”

DEDICATION

The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you
that I don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else,
if not here
in English.

© Gustavo Pérez Firmat

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