Interview

After Safia Elhillo

where is your home?

in my parents’ new house

there is a room for

everyone

except me.

where is your home?

i went to México & no one recognized me.

where is your home?

i went to México & everyone was my cousin.

the radio played José José straight from

my mom’s mixtapes. where you from, my cousins ask,

& i point at the radio.

where is your home?

it took me three years to hang art

in my Bronx apartment. soon after,

i started getting tattoos. there, i said,

i’m all moved in now.

where is your home?

riding down Lake Shore Drive

listening to GCI.

all the songs i was given

slap through the car

like the lake slaps the shore.

where is your home?

it took me three days to take down my art

& move out of the Bronx. is leaving

always easier than arriving?

where is your home?

the house i grew up in was foreclosed.

there is a small note taped to the door.

i still have the key, but the key opens nothing.