deja vu

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Familiar
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“When people I vaguely recognise come up to me at readings and tell they knew me a long, long time ago (with a knowing smile), I do worry. Where? When?”
- Bernardine Evaristo
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I knew you in a past life, maybe more. Kathmandu, Spring 1634. We swam the Yangtze, 903 BC (it wasn’t really called that yet). We climbed a hill that’s now Tibet. We terrorised the Adriatic sea as rival kinds of dinosaur. I was rich and you were poor. Our clans competed in the mammoth trade. I sold the blankets that you made. Your social virus left me lame. We were singing when the Romans came. (I thought I’d heard your song before).
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(Alvin Pang)
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