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Missing Europe: A poem by Greta Bellamacina

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brexit.jpg ![brexit.jpg](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472abd3bc54a38748d18fd5_brexit.jpeg) 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
brexit.jpg ![brexit.jpg](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/62ee0bbe0c783a903ecc0ddb/6472abd3bc54a38748d18fd5_brexit.jpeg) 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