From Outside

Poem

Harriette Joshua Hernandez
The LATHE Online
1 min readSep 2, 2020

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Artwork by John Jefferson Garo

They’d be knocking
And knocking
And asking
While shouting
If someone’s inside
But little did they know
That it’s not that
I don’t want to
Or that there’s no one at all
It’s just that
I simply
Absolutely
Don’t know how to
Open doors from the outside.

#LATHEtirary

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