"My Parents Fled the Country" [by Asa Drake]

But only for two years.
She was in jail for only two years.
It was her childhood dream.
They called her on 9 /11.
It was in the Amazon
But only for two years.
Some of my friends disappeared.
They fled more successfully than she did.
And the guy who fixed my ear infection
And strep throat
Went up for twenty-five years.
But I could never write about my childhood.
I was such an unreliable narrator in those days.

-- Asa Drake