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World, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Black Poets, Languages, English, Hanif Abdurraqib

If Life Is As Short As Our Ancestors Insist It Is, Why Isn’t Everything I Want Already At My Feet by Hanif Abdurraqib

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28 September 2022

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"I am a simple man. I want, mostly, / a year that will not kill me when it is over."

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being human, being poc, body, death, growing old, living, mortality, poetry, political, readalittlepoetry, small pleasures

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World, Warsan Shire, Poetry, Collection, Read More Women, Black Poets, Languages, English, United Kingdom

what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire

By T.

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"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"

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being poc, despair, grief, poetry, political, prayers, water, world

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