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.