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buttercream bismillahs

from Sugah. Lump. Prayer

By Momtaza Mehri

Each morning we wake up on opposite sides of the bed

and play at being Lazarus for a day, an afternoon.

Some of us will make it back, the rest

descending into a breaking night, only to be mourned

by those who look like us

across the split lip of an ocean.