January 19th
6:43 PM EST
6:43 PM EST
"The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else"
— Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues: Poems, 1981-1994 (x)
