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Self-Portrait As Mango

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Self-Portrait As Mango

Tarfia Faizullah

She says, Your English is great! How long have you been in our country?

I say, Suck on a mango, bitch, since that’s all you think I eat anyway. Mangoes

are what margins¹ like me know everything about, right? Doesn’t

a mango just win spelling bees and kiss white boys? Isn’t a mango

a placeholder in a poem folded with burkas? But this one,

the one I’m going to slice and serve down her throat, is a mango

that remembers jungles jagged with insects, the river’s darker thirst.

This mango was cut down by a scythe² that beheads soldiers, mango

that taunts³ and suns itself into a hard-palmed fist only a few months

per year, fattens⁴ while blood stains green ponds. Why use a mango

to beat her perplexed⁵? Why not a coconut⁶? Because this “exotic” fruit

won’t be cracked open to reveal whiteness to you. This mango

isn’t alien just because of its gold-green bloodline. I know

I’m worth waiting for. I want to be kneaded for ripeness. Mango:

my own sunset-skinned heart waiting to be held and peeled, mango

I suck open with teeth. Tappai! This is the only way to eat a mango.

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1 margins
边( margin的名词复数 )；利润；页边空白；差数
参考例句：
They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。 To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。

2 scythe
n. 长柄的大镰刀，战车镰； v. 以大镰刀割
参考例句：
He's cutting grass with a scythe.他正在用一把大镰刀割草。 Two men were attempting to scythe the long grass.两个人正试图割掉疯长的草。

3 taunts
嘲弄的言语，嘲笑，奚落( taunt的名词复数 )
参考例句：
He had to endure the racist taunts of the crowd. 他不得不忍受那群人种族歧视的奚落。 He had to endure the taunts of his successful rival. 他不得不忍受成功了的对手的讥笑。

4 fattens
v.喂肥( fatten的第三人称单数 )；养肥（牲畜）；使（钱）增多；使（公司）升值
参考例句：
The weekly with large fattens on sex, crime and scandal. 这家发行量甚大的周刊靠宣染性、罪和丑闻打开销路。来自互联网 It boosts consumers' real incomes and fattens firms' profit margins. 这将增加消费者的收入提高企业的利润幅度。来自互联网

5 perplexed
adj.不知所措的
参考例句：
The farmer felt the cow,went away,returned,sorely perplexed,always afraid of being cheated.那农民摸摸那头牛，走了又回来，犹豫不决，总怕上当受骗。 The child was perplexed by the intricate plot of the story.这孩子被那头绪纷繁的故事弄得迷惑不解。

6 coconut
n.椰子
参考例句：
The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。 The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。

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