Lines 69-72: “than rubble / than bone / than your child's body / in pieces.Lines 65-66: “than fourteen men between / your legs”.Lines 49-52: “blacks / refugees / dirty immigrants / asylum seekers”.Lines 45-47: “no one could take it / no one could stomach it / no one skin would be tough enough”.Line 35: “no one chooses refugee camps”.Line 29: “no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck”.Line 25: “unless the water is safer than the land”.Line 24: “no one puts their children in a boat”.Line 12: “no one leaves home,” “unless home chases you”.Lines 1-2: “unless / home is the mouth of a shark”.Line 89: “home is a sweaty voice in your ear”.She describes their lived experiences from the perspective of one such immigrant. In this long narrative, Shire throws light on the journey of the refugees from their homeland to a different country. They somehow won her heart, or held the key to deeper parts of her, or forced or tricked their ways inbut none of them succeeded in making a home out of the house none of them succeeded in. The important themes of Shire’s ‘Home’ include the suffering of refugees, immigration, racism, and helplessness. These are all men who succeededone way or anotherin making their way into the speaker’s home. Lines 78-82: “home told you / to quicken your legs / leave your clothes behind / crawl through the desert / wade through the oceans” Anwar, Basil, Yusuf, and Blue-Eyed Johnny.Line 77: “home chased you to the shore”.Lines 74-75: “home is the mouth of a shark / home is the barrel of the gun”.Lines 69-72: “than rubble / than bone / than your child's body / in pieces.”.Lines 65-66: “fourteen men between / your legs”.Lines 43-44: “a truckload / of men who look like your father”.Lines 36-37: “strip searches where your / body is left aching”.Lines 29-30: “days and nights in the stomach of a truck / feeding on newspaper”.Lines 26-28: “burns their palms / under trains / beneath carriages”.Lines 18-22: “carried the anthem under / your breath / only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet / sobbing as each mouthful of paper / made it clear that you would not be going back.”.Lines 16-17: “the blade burnt threats into / your neck”.Lines 12-14: “home chases you / fire under feet / hot blood in your belly”.Somalienne, donc, elle a fui son pays, en pleine guerre civile. Lines 7-9: “the boy you went to school with / who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory / is holding a gun bigger than his body” Warsan Shire Home is featured in an anthology of much-loved poems and other verse forms from the English-speaking world. Cest le titre dun poème, écrit et récité pour la première fois en 2010 par Warsan Shire, une poétesse somalienne anglophone, avant même que les médias et les gouvernants aient mis un nom sur la « crise des migrants ».Lines 3-6: “you only run for the border / when you see the whole city running as well / your neighbors running faster than you / breath bloody in their throats”.Lines 55-57: “smell strange / savage / messed”.Lines 52-53: “asylum seekers / sucking”.Line 20: “tearing up,” “passport,” “airport toilet”.Line 6: “breath bloody,” “their throats”.
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