Extract:
Conversion

Over dinner mum remembers
that I was six when we moved
back to Trinidad.

She said people would ask
my name and I would say
“Hhrroaja Hrrroabinsin”

and people would chuckle
at the black boy
with the Scottish accent.

One day she woke
to see me in the bedroom
mirror in blue y-fronts,

practicing the accent
with full hand and facial
gestures. First in Scottish:

“Lukeit theis evrybuddy”
and then the conversion
“All of allyuh, check dis out nuh”.

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