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Today is National Poetry Day so I'm going to again share my favourite contemporary poem, which is I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith...

Iā€™M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

By Danez Smith

O California, donā€™t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? Iā€™m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, Iā€™m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesnā€™t die canā€™t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled seaā€”a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & itā€™s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& itā€™s so sad, you know? Youā€™re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that canā€™t shine.
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Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)

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Also weird that Eric Adams did the exact same thing as Clarence Thomas, yet Thomas wasn't indicted and still sits on the SCOTUS today with an election upcoming after granting Trump the powers of a King

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weird how no one is saying we shouldn't prosecute Eric Adams and should instead let voters decide

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Look if you want to be showered with corrupt gifts from shady folks in public life, you can do it, you just have to get yourself on the Supreme Court.

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Times & Post editors demand Harris outline policies. She delivers a major speech and informative interview on economic policy. The editors BURY it. (Post then buried it even lower.) This isn't news judgment. It's petty vindictiveness. Fucking #BrokenTimes#BrokenPost.

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