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Chisom Irechukwu

Chisom Irechukwu

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Chisom Irechukwu
Chisom Irechukwu
Nov 7, 2017 · 1 min read

Last night, in the midst of an argument, you said you didn’t want to remember my name. And I remember freezing in that moment, my tongue too heavy to reply or ask you why. So I sank into a chair and you resumed cutting onions.

Do you remember the first time you held my name in your mouth? How you rolled it around, till it…

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Chisom Irechukwu
Chisom Irechukwu
Nov 4, 2017 · 1 min read

Lover, how did we speak before we learned the words? I do not tell you of the things that haunt me, how they scald my tongue as they go down my throat. I swallow secrets whole, keep them in the safe hollow of my belly. Lost girl in this lost world. We are brought here with nothing but skin and a beating heart. All I have known are these words. These…

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