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I RETURNED TO MY HOMETOWN
as a man asked to spy for his country
when I arrived
It was like I never left
when I left
It was like I never came back
I returned to my hometown
as a man called to return to his mother's uterus
after not seeing her since his birth
When I returned I found
no mercy, no love
and no milk
I returned to my hometown
to find my childhood steps
And I found them in every street, steps
of one leg, because since my departure
I never learned to walk on my own two legs
I returned to my hometown
as man called to clarify that his dream was erased
and found that it only grew
because my hometown is my hometown
only when I am in it.