Title: Exchange Student

Author: Kerry Hines

In: Sport 23: Spring 1999

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1999

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Exchange Student

She goes into her room.
He follows and asks
to stroke her hair. He is
getting a divorce.

The host family doesn't understand.
Be nicer, they urge, it's hard
for him. Perhaps it's a language
problem, they thought Scandinavian
girls were nicer. Please,
she says: Finnish.