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(you’ve just moved in), we follow
manuals – assemble, organise, clean to create privacy, space and light for you to sleep and study.
Handbags and coats hung on the walls, curtains shortened; plants and chairs now grouped on your small balcony
we part outside your shared place
one flight of stairs above the bar. I reach for the cold rail of the bus
and you cycle away to the library... small shoulders, ear muffs,
floating hair.
* leuk: nice (Dutch)
* lekker: nice (Afrikaans)