No one leaves home until home is a damp voice in your ear saying leave, run now, i don't know what i've become. The lines no one leaves home unless/ home is the mouth of a shark that made us rethink the global refugee crisis, appear in Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home.’. I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark home is the barrel of the gun and no one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore unless home tells you to leave what you could not behind, even if it was human. a) The ban of migrants to America by Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() Activity 1: Google Jamboard: How would you describe youth. The line ‘no one leaves home unless/ home is the mouth of a shark’ from the poem ‘Home’ was widely used by the demonstrators against. her body, her ribcage an aquarium, the cancer spreading and spreading, deep space, her throat a lava lamp, sparklers beneath breastbone. burning into itself, deep sea blue inside. The dirty looks in the street softer than a limb torn off, the indignity of everyday life more tender than fourteen men who look like your father, between your legs, insults easier to swallow than rubble, than your child's body in pieces - for now, forget about pride your survival is more important. Warm up: Have students follow the directions above to analyze the poem Home by Warsan Shire. and uterus, travelling up and through her throat, needlepoints of light, fireworks glimmering down, the body. No one would choose to crawl under fences, be beaten until your shadow leaves you, raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of the boat because you are darker, be sold, starved, shot at the border like a sick animal, be pitied, lose your name, lose your family, make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten, stripped and searched, find prison everywhere and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side with go home blacks, refugees dirty immigrants, asylum seekers sucking our country dry of milk, dark, with their hands out smell strange, savage - look what they've done to their own countries, what will they do to ours? Who would choose to spend days and nights in the stomach of a truck unless the miles travelled meant something more than journey. ![]() Migrants hang onto flotation tubes in the sea after jumping from an overloaded wooden boat during a rescue operation 16 kilometres off the coast of Libya.
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