Check your answers before sending your application

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Answer 1

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• I know this land: better than my own,
• I know this land: now
• The words: in your language
• The words: embrace me
• the way: my mothertongue never could:

I abandoned her before she had the chance to know me.

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Answer 2

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• Now: I am a stranger to my
• Now: homeland,
• your bed: is the warmest place I’ve endured.

And I fear the night you switch channels: over the red-point phone, declare

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Answer 3

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• The salt will pity me,
  I think
• when it mingles with the waves
  and my tears
• The glass box will lower its gaze in second-hand
  shame.

The officer will read out a list of questions but it'll just sound like you saying

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