issue 1

Koukash Review

2022

Third Culture Kid I

Issam A Zeibak

Your Father said
‘Your language is a bastard

its accents & phrases
humiliating, your choices

soap or filth.’

to be a purity or
tough as dirt

even your name
was his

choice for who
you’d become

yet your tongue, born
without a border

owning nothing
borrowing everything

is as it ever was

before the world
had its words

Issam A Zeibak

Writer of prose and poetry, living in Brooklyn, NY.

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