A woman to a woman is a country

by Liliya Gazizova
translated by Anna Halberstadt

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A woman to a woman is a country
A woman to a woman is a war

A woman to a woman is a cause
A woman to a woman is a man

A woman to a woman is a curbe
A woman to a woman is a slap in the face

A woman to a woman is a woman

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Mommy-mommy, they are killing each other!
Can you pull me back inside you?

Mommy-mommy, they don’t look like people!
This world doesn’t resemble the world.

Mommy-mommy, we are neglected here.
All the elders have disappeared!

I wish I could return to the amniotic fluid
Turn into a brainless entity of flesh.