Today's poem is by Hari Alluri

[Please, don't appropriate]
       

Please, don't appropriate
this error into the good small
moments of your days—we need more
betrayal if we want to keep forgiving—not if you believe
that language is a spell.

Blessed are those
who ghosts and demons
flock towards. And every time, ingat,
my loves. My loves: Ingat.

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