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Homesick For Noise

January 25, 2022
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I hated sleeping in India
while travelling for a friend’s wedding.
a foreign bedroom of sweltering heat enveloped my sticky body
as I restlessly slapped pesty mosquitoes rambling in my ear.
to my left, a competition took place between the screeching fan on high-speed
and the uncle singing prayers in the other room.
who sings at 5 am?
where no one sings at all,
now when I wake up to the stillness of the melbournian streets,
with no lustrous silver tumbler brimmed with filter coffee,
I miss the reasons why
I hated sleeping in India.

 

 

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Abira Kannan

Abira Kannan is a Tamil Australian graduate of Psychology and Creative Writing from Deakin University. She writes about various social, cultural and political issues with themes including nostalgia, oppression, identity, power and resilience. She has work published in Entropy Magazine and can be found on Instagram @writingbyabira.

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