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DetoNation

There’s a joke that ends with — huh?

It’s the bomb saying here is your father.


Now here is your father inside

your lungs. Look how lighter


the earth is — afterward.

To even write the word father


is to carve a portion of the day

out of a bomb-bright page.


There’s enough light to drown in

but never enough to enter the bones


& stay. Don’t stay here, he said, my boy

broken by the names of flowers. Don’t cry


anymore. So I ran into the night.

The night: my shadow growing


toward my father.


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Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist. Vuon…

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