The Believer - [I once was a child am a child]

September 2011

[I once was a child am a child]

A new poem

by Victoria Chang

I once was a child am a child am someone’s child not my mother’s not
my father’s the boss gave us special treatment treatment for something

special a lollipop or a sticker glitter from the toy box the better we did
the better the prize one year everyone was fired everyone fired but me

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Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta, was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle, winner of the Crab Orchard Review Open Competition, was published by Southern Illinois University Press.

September 2011

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