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The Repair Shop
by Preston Ham We fix up our old belongings, the brittle portrait, the chipped vessel, the cracked chest. We do this to preserve a piece against time’s decay and the repair becomes part of the belonging so that who we are fills in who we were the way a reconstructed vase can hold both a…
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Where Do We Belong?
by Lilli Mulvaine Where do we belongif our old country rips its people apartand forces refugees to run from ruin like rodents,while the new landwe were promised was supposedly of hope,would now rather swallow us whole,by scarfing down on our bones, andscavenging on anything that brings assets and gold. Where do we belongonce exiled from…
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Unoriginal
by Lesly Portugal Therefore, I hated literatureIt kept reminding me that my feelings were universalThat they have been recognized to exist long before I have.It is the fact that I do not have the first-hand experienceMaking me believe thatI sound like another person didLike twenty-thousand other people did before meThe words I say, the phrases…