by
Helen Garner
A poem translated from the Arabic called Homesickness. Words to the effect of ‘Once again you take out your knife and stab me’, and then this: ‘Nobody knows whether I am dancing or staggering.’
‘There is something between me and her.’
‘Since when?’
‘Two weeks.’
I keep walking but put my hands in my pockets.
Nobody knows whether I am staggering or dancing.
oh shit