1. 15 Jul



    Peter Boyle, from “Education”

    airwalker:

    After telling that story
    you burnt your hand on the iron,
    burnt it yourself,
    your punishment for breaking silence.

    You rushed to the balcony but they pulled you back inside.
    You wanted to spit, to scream insults at the soldiers
    to stop them beating up the old man in the street.
    “Listen,” she said as she held you back, your mother.
    “Listen, you have to learn to say nothing.”
    Learn to be nobody.
    Learn to be the white wall
    that has no face and no tongue.

     
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