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A parenthood lyric in which the speaker moves 'to the suburb of / a star' and loses language while raising five children.

Domestic life is rendered as cosmic displacement: the suburb is both ordinary and astronomical. The broken phrasing around 'And lost my / language...' makes family responsibility feel like a migration away from articulate selfhood.

'HAVING FIVE KIDS': 'I have moved out / To the suburb of / a star / And lost my / language...'

The whole poem is the title's premise enacted in a few broken lines. 'The suburb of / a star' makes fame or aspiration into residential geography - the speaker has relocated to the outskirts of brightness, not its center. The casualty named is 'language' itself, and the trailing ellipsis is where the loss actually sounds, the sentence dissolving before it can finish. Parenthood, displacement, and the thinning of articulate selfhood collapse into one short fall down the page. This reading remains provisional because the page is marked mixed quality band and the transcript is OCR-uncertain.