The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
— Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (via anthologyz)
(Source: darling80m, via miswritten)