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Yaadgaar

We crossed the burning border to sleep like birds in the plain. My father left his last coin at the shrine and my mother gave an egg Do they remember us? Do they sweep our house? Someone asked Someone cried because her wedding jewels were too heavy to bring Every day we forgot the home and remembered the tents

My father prayed for a wristwatch and my aunt for salvation I screwed my eyes shut and thought about nothing.

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