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Foreign Accent

To be corrected for doing right and to be laughed at for strangeness...

By Homayra AdibaPublished 11 months ago Updated 11 months ago 1 min read
Foreign Accent
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She laughed at my way of speaking... my accent.

He laughed, they laughed...

I laughed too.

I laughed, not because

I was not from where they were from.

Nor because I thought I sounded funny.

I laughed, because

my accent is my proof of my access...

to more than one language of literature,

poetry, songs, lore, and more.

I laughed, because

none of these mattered to me, at the end of the day

to recognize love.

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Homayra Adiba

Homayra Adiba is a Bangladeshi American artist and student anthropologist, studying at the University of Michigan.

https://www.homayraadiba.com

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    Written by Homayra Adiba