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I Don't Even Know


I don't know who I am any more,

Not the bed I lie in,

Not the clothes on my back.

 

I don't know who calls me for breakfast,

Not why the mother shouts for her son to put on his socks,

Not why the boy, maybe aged seven poses in a full-length mirror.

 

I don't know how I got to this building, when a second ago I was in that bed,

Not how I wear this uniform so commonly,

Not how a shoulder bag hangs, full of books I couldn't pronounce.

 

I don't know, even, who I am anymore,

or how I changed,

or how you could leave me.

 

But I know I don't want to know you ant longer,

because the memory pulls a trigger to my brain.

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Lizaf Asifan

Hey, I'm seventeen, and many of those years have been spent devouring Italian mint chocolate chip ice-cream. I love Italian mint chocolate-chip ice-cream. You should really know that: that I LOVE ITALIAN MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE-CREAM (okay, I think you get the picture now, huh?).

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