Missing Europe
#### I made up our bed, a clean wedding
#### Thought I would find you in it
Thought we had the same eroding mouths.
#### When you swallowed my language
#### I didn’t care because the secrets of my past
Were yours too and I counted how many women I could be.
#### I felt lighter than all the metal flags between us
#### The ones that made up our alibi stars,
Day cleaning arrows breaking up miles and the value of chickens
#### And below we were their immigrant lovers
#### Marching paradise futures,
Steps on a ticket, all the same.
#### And we laughed at the reality TV government,
#### Until we could no longer understand why
We were both missing.
#### Featured image: 1870 political cartoon picturing Britain as a scared old lady turning away from the problems of the continent
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