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Revolutionaries

November 27, 2019
By celinechoii BRONZE, College Station, Texas
celinechoii BRONZE, College Station, Texas
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We burned off our fingerprints on the
kitchen stove. We were in a secret covenant
 
involving blue eyed blonde haired idolatry
and hated ourselves for it. We grew up
 
to fill the clichés expected by a white girl who
just doesn’t understand who’s name begins with
 
A and ends with Of The Free. Our lunch boxes we
abandoned on the playground just like the tongue
 
and touch of our mothers and their mothers.
We take a long time, sometimes forever
 
 to regrow our ashed whorls and arches.
To go to the lost and found and find mother’s
 
kimbaphas been rolled into a full circle that
we come to as we march towards this Justice
 
For All that escapes our lips at approximately eight AM on
weekdays. We hate to make food a metaphor
 
for ourselves, our duties, but I just need to know
I can find my way back.
 


The author's comments:

Celine is a high school junior hailing from the booming metropolis of College Station, Texas. She has attended the Kenyon Young Writers Studio. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Ephimiliar Journal, Crashtest Magazine, and the Live Poets' Society. In her free time, she writes poetry, creates dozens of playlists on Spotify, and takes Buzzfeed quizzes to find out which Parks and Rec character she is.
11/27/2019 (24 minutes ago)


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