what’s a community?
i don’t know what to do and I think: what’s a community?
we arrive
to a family
to a question
to nowhere
we arrive
and i don’t know what to do
what i’m suppoused to be doing?
we arrive
and have dinner together
and talk about romeo and juliet
and that’s all i understand
romeo and juliet
there’re some stories we’ve heard
that stick with us

because we like them
because we don’t
because that’s how it’s suppoussed to be
and i wonder
what’s a community?
the light on the tree?
the cat of the neighbour?
this emptiness?
i don’t know what to do
and i go to sleep
not knowing
and i wake up
not knowing
and i walk around not knowing
and i enter a room
and started sewing

because that’s what i do
that’s primarily what i do
i don’t write
i don’t think
i sew and talk
talk about my grandfather who was a taylor
and how i know
how to sew
before knowing
and we talk
and we sew
and we dance
and i can’t understand
what i hear
but i can
be here.

Giuliana Kiersz