Natalie Chin

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the wrong person says, you’re beautiful

and he puts his hands between my thighs as if he means it

soft, unlike the others. shivering, like there’s a river inside

in the background, a television flickers muted warnings

while somewhere else i am with you in winter again

so when the wrong person says you’re beautiful kid

i forget that i tend to mistake noise for information

and some people make you feel the opposite of clean

and these hands on my body are not my hands

but i remember the way i look at tiny route maps

the ones placed above the train’s double doors

a trail of blue dots stretching across a straight line

every station passed is a station closer to the end

Natalie Chin [b. 1992] is studying in London.

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