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Perhaps We Are All Immigrants

by Rupi Kaur

Rupi Kaur

perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search of a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries




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