Lines 69-72: “than rubble / than bone / than your child's body / in pieces.”.Lines 65-66: “fourteen men between / your legs”.Lines 43-44: “a truckload / of men who look like your father”.Lines 36-37: “strip searches where your / body is left aching”.Lines 29-30: “days and nights in the stomach of a truck / feeding on newspaper”.Lines 26-28: “burns their palms / under trains / beneath carriages”.Lines 18-22: “carried the anthem under / your breath / only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet / sobbing as each mouthful of paper / made it clear that you would not be going back.”.Lines 16-17: “the blade burnt threats into / your neck”.Lines 12-14: “home chases you / fire under feet / hot blood in your belly”.Lines 7-9: “the boy you went to school with / who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory / is holding a gun bigger than his body”.Lines 3-6: “you only run for the border / when you see the whole city running as well / your neighbors running faster than you / breath bloody in their throats”.Lines 55-57: “smell strange / savage / messed”.Lines 52-53: “asylum seekers / sucking”. Line 20: “tearing up,” “passport,” “airport toilet”.Line 6: “breath bloody,” “their throats”.
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