The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Maybe the Body by Asa Drake

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I want to go home, which is a concession—home isn’t here. The opposite of
possibility, to give up possession. I often think I am losing ground.

When the passport office closes, I cut my hair.

The passport office opens. I grow it out again.

It is possible what belongs to me doesn’t dictate where I belong.

Once, at the beginning of an important friendship, we pointed at our flag and
joked, Can either of us write anything sincere about that?¹

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1 (Attempt)

A flag can be colorized as a second flag to represent the smallest
faction of people or to celebrate a holiday or to make a statement
—and the flag is still recognizable but now means the United States
during Breast Cancer Awareness Month or the United States
of Police Officers or the United Colonized State as Mark Twain
once described, proposing a flag for my mother’s country,
We can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted
black & the stars replaced by the skull & crossbones.
Of course, my country is my mother’s country. She insists, love both!

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