i am a many hearted survivor
i am the many hearts of my people
i am the heart of my mother and father
i know they will die before i do
because they are already dead
i am the two hearts of my twin boys
i know they will die after i do
i am the heart of every language i “carry”
i am a displaced person from nowhere
because the place i am from
doesn’t exist anymore
i am from the Vernacular Islands
where everybody is a slave
where syllables govern the world
where my people speak to my heart
Yiddish vernacular like my grandparents
Russian vernacular like my mother
Romanian vernacular like my father
English vernacular like my boys
Dutch vernacular like my wife
broken French vernacular like me
in my youth in Paris
i am a many hearted survivor
i am the many hearts of my people
i know they will die one by one
the one left standing
the heart still beating
is who I am
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