Poems from Prem_Ganesan
I find myself sleeping a deep sleep that I don’t want to wake up from.
On a bed of clouds, I float.
IAMDISTURBED
IAMGRABBED
I AMANGRY
...
I’m just a brown boy
WITHABLACKBOOK
holding on to blue feelings.
I bleed red blood
I have red eyes
bloodshot.
gunshot.
another friend...
Your parents came to this country
leaving a world of hell behind.
They folded up their dreams into a package, and sent it with themselves...
If you could see my face right now
you would be scared.
I haven’t looked in the mirror in 4 years
because
if I do, I’m afraid it will crack...
Let me tell you a story
of how my people were extracted from their villages like sap from tree trunks
and walked hundreds of miles to a new...