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i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
Marwa Helal
she/her
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
i am all of this thing, but i am also having mother once, and she is loving me
Marwa Helal is a poet and journalist. She is the author of Ante body (Nightboat Books, 2022), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019), the chapbook I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No Dear, 2017) and a Belladonna chaplet (2021). She has been awarded fellowships from the Kresge Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Whiting Foundation, New York Foundation of the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Poets House, and Cave Canem, where she invented the poetic form known as the Arabic. She was born in Al Mansurah, Egypt. Her poem is after Uzodinma Iweala’s, Beasts of No Nation.