Application for Asylum

how did you learn fear?
i crossed a body of water

how did you learn fear?
i grew a new american body it was the summer [ ] died

& now?
i don’t like to be touched

what do you do?
i keep having the dream where my brother is dead i wake up & can’t remember where he lives

where do you live?
broken dishes in the water

where do you live?
[ ] died teenaged & his brother died too they were moonfaced & dark

where do you live?
we came here to be safe we crossed a body of water

where did you hide?
[ ] was killed in the summer in the country we asked to keep us

what do you hide?
it makes the bleeding brand new

what did you lose?
they were identical twins they look like my brother broken dishes in the water i don’t know where we’ll go