I used to change clothes
in Heathrow airport.
I don't cry in airports, I wait until the movie begins.
Sterile white floors with no history of movement
scraped into their surfaces. I easily forget where I am
who I am when I look down.
The lights make me forget when the sun should arrive.
Coming and going and going and coming
They said, to not see the sun rise and set, to travel faster
than time is unnatural.
I hoped: no one ask me if I am going or coming
where I reside
where I live
where my home is
in borderlands, can I read you a poem
maybe if I hand you a business card with a poem on it
it will satisfy your desire to place me.
Place me next to your rich relatives or your cousin who also lives
outside.
I can tell you what I wear in each country.
I can tell you I have three bank accounts.
That I haven't lived in the same city for more than 9 months.
In the absence of claiming a place I use ignorance as my advantage.
All dressed up in the clothes washed by your wife.
She said: You'll be back, won't you?
I made no promises.
