by Robbie Gamble
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“That is not who we are.”
That is: not.
Who we are, that is.
Not who!
We are?
Are we?
We are who we are;
that we
are who we are
is that.
Not that!
Are we not?
We are.
We are that.
That!
THAT!
That is that.
Robbie Gamble’s poems have appeared in Coal Hill Review, Whale Road Review, RHINO, Poet Lore, and Rust + Moth. He was the winner of the 2017 Carve Poetry prize. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.