I Do Not Want to Give My DNA to a Third-Party Genealogical Company
     Or, Apology for My Future Descendants

Despite attempts to crease me,

I remain a vacant atlas.

You are here to collect

 

my dead money in the homeland

where the bought bombs fall,

where I never made a home.

 

In the land of blood I was tried

as an adult second.

I was born a debt unmothered.

 

When burdened to speak,

your word was last in my jaw.

I freed you

 

from the boneyard I will be.

This self house

against endlessness.


Also by Hannah Cohen

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