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Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017
Class & Inequality

No More White Girls, or What I Learned from Father by Kemi Alabi

Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017
Class & Inequality
No More White Girls, or What I Learned from Father by Kemi Alabi

My father hit like / a Nigerian’s first / Wisconsin winter, / (what kind of human / survives through this?) /
like, on a good day, / his name’s a fresh / spitwad in some / pink teller’s mouth.

Tagged: Nigeria, immigration, No More White Girls or What I Learned from Father by Kemi Alabi, Kemi Alabi

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Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017

XXVIII. On Father’s Day by Dorothy Chan

Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017
XXVIII. On Father’s Day by Dorothy Chan

On Father’s Day, we eat crabs for dinner, / and I think about being four-years-old / dreading trips to the seafood market. / I’d hold my dad’s hand, let him protect me / from the eels popping their heads out the tank,

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Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017

Cryptomnesia by Kayti Lahsaiezadeh

Laura Pegram
June 23, 2017
Cryptomnesia by Kayti Lahsaiezadeh

I ask them if they remember / when we slept up on the roof / in the summertime when / I fell in the latrine when / we stole ripe tomatoes / and ate them with salt / they say yes yes yes

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