Geographical Guessing Game

 

The subject of origin is a familiar one to adoptees. BIPOC adoptees are constantly having to re-enforce our identities at the expense of others, turning our ethnic backgrounds into a guessing game. This poem is how I relate to such geographical curiosity.

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