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Jackie Kay
the past
the past
the past
The girl I was is out at sea.Isn’t that funny? She just walks
further and further away, slowly.
Soon I’ll think we had different lives
me and her, her and me.
Maybe I’ll wave to her across the sea,
Lift my arm high above my shoulder
and wave to the wee girl with the black curly hair,
her skirt, way above her knees in the dark sea.
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Jackie Kay
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1962)
Jackie Kay is a poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised in Glasgow. However short, Jackie Kay’s poem ‘Someone Else’ adequately summarizes the central theme of her poetry and much of her other work.
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the past
The girl I was is out at sea.Isn’t that funny? She just walks
further and further away, slowly.
Soon I’ll think we had different lives
me and her, her and me.
Maybe I’ll wave to her across the sea,
Lift my arm high above my shoulder
and wave to the wee girl with the black curly hair,
her skirt, way above her knees in the dark sea.
the past
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