Home Is Where the Street Is: A poem by Emily Tierney Kinsella

H is for home of which I have none

O is for outsider it’s what I’ve become

M is for mattress a sleeping bag covered in frost

E is for everything it’s what I have lost

Blackout

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The Smallest Coffins are the Heaviest

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Noise

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L is for lonely but in the middle of a crowd

E is for excluded but once I was proud

S is for some help from anyone at all

S is for survival I’m still standing tall

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