Aishah’s Experience (Participant) [she/her]

A space to be

A soul to hold

Tie me to the floor and release me into the air

I am a balloon

You are a balloon

None of us are baboons but we all have red bottoms

Red bottoms?

YES, BLUE BOTTOMS

The mirror is broken and it will always be

I need to break it some more

just so I can piece it back together again

The river is contaminated.

Not the 5cm river or the 10cm river, but the 5km river

Long, long, river. Contaminated by baboons and robins

I’m picking up grains of sand and when I’m done my hands will be empty so I can eat rice.

Roast duck rice, which I’ve never tried and never will until I do

Crunch crunch crunch

Cronch crondh drondh

A self to me

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Dear Aishah,