don’t ask me for favorites (poetry by sofia abbas)

don’t ask me for favorites

my fatal flaw is either stubbornness or indecision.

un-agreeable traits, they tug o’ war

divorced to opposite ends of the same leash.

I can’t say what my most favorite scent is,

I only know I wish to find the phantom 

of my ma’s Arabian jasmine in every room I enter.

I am not sure of anything, importance regardless,

but I have a jasmine bloom and bud punctured into my 

forearm; 

that must count for something.

Sofia Abbas (she/her) is Assamese-Pakistani and a graduate of UCLA, studying sociology and film/television. Nine months ago she woke up an amnesiac with a fumbling grasp of the English language. She now writes fervently, attempting to revitalize how she communicates with the world and how she understands the world speaking back. She lives in Northern California with her menace of a cat, Persephone.

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