Where I'm From
I am from the neatness
Of clothes tucked away
In folded squares
In chests of drawers
In the cream white room
Where the television
Can be heard
And conversations of
Heated debates can
Pass through the closed doors clearly.
I am from the international films that teach culture and
Politics that
Are seen
When boundaries are broken and
Land is taken by
The city from
Deer who
Wander the paved hillside
With no forest to call home.
I am from the competition with
Individuals congregating in a
Sea of conformity with matching T-shirts
From narcissists who live in a world
Where their answer is always correct;
Where their opinion is always right.
I am from an underlying bias:
An infectious disease
That everyone tries to cure
But that no one ever defeats.