DECLARE THE CONTENTS. PROVIDE EVIDENCE.
IS IT LIQUID, IS IT SEED, IS IT WEAPON.
FIELD 1. FULL NAME OF DECLARANT.
A: The name I was given does not translate.
FIELD 2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
A: A country that exists on no map you carry.
FIELD 3. PURPOSE OF ENTRY.
A: To breathe.
FIELD 4. DECLARE THE CONTENTS.
A: Nineteen stories.
Each one a room someone lived in.
Each one a door someone lost.
FIELD 5. PROVIDE EVIDENCE.
A: The evidence is the body.
The evidence is the breath still inside it.
FIELD 6. IS IT LIQUID, IS IT SEED, IS IT WEAPON.
A: It is none of these and all of these.
It is breath carried across a border in the body of a child.
استنشق
FIELD 7. DURATION OF STAY.
A: As long as someone remembers.
FIELD 8. DO YOU INTEND TO RETURN.
A: I never left.
لا تبلع، لا تتكلم
(Do not swallow. Do not speak.)
FIELD 9. FINAL DECLARATION.
A: There is no final declaration.
There is only the next breath.
لم يُسأل هذا السؤال
(This question was never asked.)
Inhale.