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Had to return it, waiting for an available copy.

I hang from the morning’s gallows
and my forehead is lowered by death
because alive, I did not lower it.

- Amal Dunqul

“It is for good reason that we shed our skin to assimilate into the world that invisibilizes us: after acquiring respectability and protection, we will finally wear our real faces…we quickly learn that the inside is already rotten, we too run the risk of decay...we look deep in our closets for the skin we once wore, we find it shrivelled and discolored, foreign to us as we are foreign to it.”

Poetry.