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poem number 2 from poetica ads



                                 in the foundry
                               the guys call me Yellow
                           meaning I’m coming from Asia
                               or my favorite color
                                           I don’t know
                                          they’re fun of
                                         laughing at 
                                           every 
                                         I know 
                                        I won’t 
                                       spend 
                                        my whole 
                                        world here
                                         I’m waiting 
                                           for a ship to 
                                                Bangkok
                                                 but the man 
                                                 you’ve married 
                                              to is coming with 
                                            clay sample 
                                         I wash                 every stone 
                                      you step                 on with legs
                                  borrowed                   from twxt us
                               we compose                  estuary in the 
                              Philippines                   to keep us awake






Copyright © Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

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