Flumes Vol. 3: Issue 1 Summer 2018 | Page 70

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On the Way To English Fluency

By Holly Painter

We search for his missing Matchbox.

Where is them?

Where are they?

Where did them went?

Where did they go?

A howl like a dog caught in brambles.

I am not helping.

It’s the answer he wants, not the question.