You don’t realize how uncomfortable your first language sits in your mouth. Not until the day you learn how colonisation was a paedophile who insists on being a parent. So when it’s pointed out, you deny it. When you were wild with young life you denied it - forgive yourself. Those waters were sharp. Today, learn how to mouth language that built conical towers. Re-learn words that clumsily slip out of you. Grow a spine out of your mouth.
