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Hometown: Memoir Challenge
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Memoir Challenge Hometown home town,
The town where I was born?
Home town or hometown,
The town when I live now.
Hometown
The town I just moved from?
Home town
The town I’m moving to?
Hometown
The home of records town.
Same town Hometown
Where grandma’s buried now.
Where are you from? Hometown?
A query often met
With a deep deep breath and
An eager eager smile
From a child of traveling parents
Casually inserting self.
How many ships crossings
How many new houses
How many friend left
And often forgotten.
The regret of the lost
Of a town to call home
Made up by the memories
Of saintly old bones
Cathedrals and church
And a castle or two.
When asked the opening question
To start the ball rolling,
A boulder heads down
An avalanche of lived spaces
And
I’ve lived there, too’s.
A roll of eyes
Where haven’t you lived?
Africa I think
Oh wait maybe I have.
While there’s
Nowhere to have come from
There nowhere to return to
But not something to miss
If never you have had
A hometown
to go back to.
A home town to
Come back from.
