a poem by Clint Smith

"when people say 'we have made it through worse before'
all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who..."

I hit the character limit, but you can listen to Smith himself recite the rest of the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmX_i4LAV5U

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Clint Smith - When People Say 'We Have Made It Through Worse Before'

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Cuando la historia que parece ajena revela la propia
"El legado de la esclavitud" de Clint Smith me conectó con historias olvidadas y desatendidas sobre el pasado esclavista, no solo en EE. UU., sino también en América Latina y la diáspora afrolatina. Este lib
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AfroféminasCuando la historia que parece ajena revela la propia

«El legado de la esclavitud» de Clint Smith me conectó con historias olvidadas y desatendidas sobre el pasado esclavista, no solo en EE. UU., sino también en América Latina y la diáspora afrolatina…

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A Unique Wonder
I read somewhere that meteor showersare almost alwavs named after the constellation from whichthey originate. It's funny, I think, how even the universe is telling usthat we can never get too farfrom the place that created us.How there is always a streak of our pasttrailing closely behind uslike a smattering of obstinate
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Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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‘Self-defence’: Charge stayed against man accused in Nanaimo homeless camp shooting

Prosecutors won't move ahead with a charge against a man in a March shooting outside a Nanaimo homeless camp, saying evidence suggests he was acting in self defence.

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A lesson in defamiliarization from Clint Smith on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert"

Viktor Shklovsky's "Art as Device" (1917) was part of the literary theory course I took in graduate school in 1989, as it is now for English...

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@Tigertash ohhh, I definitely want to check out #ClintSmith's book. I loved listening to his perspective back when he was on #PodSaveThePeople

Looking forward to learning about some of these other titles. Thanks for sharing