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On a Lamp Post Long Ago

in case we have forgotten the word love, we will know its symbol The post On a Lamp Post Long Ago appeared first on Guernica.
Illustration by Ansellia Kulikku.

Listen:

I don’t know what to think of first
in the list

of all the things that are disappearing: Fishes, birds, trees, flowers, bees,

and languages too. They say every four months.

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