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Brittney Griner
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I’m glad she’s back
Aren’t you?
Return the others, please—and
We should say
You may have your own
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We don’t like each other now
Except maybe in passing
On the street
On the subway
In the store
Real people
Real person to real person
We pick each other up
In small ways all the time
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More real than politics
That makes a war
Forgets the real people
But counts numbers
Of them
Plays them on a map
And in a mortal dream
Of conquest,
Acquisition
To rationalize
Before the rest
Of temporal authority
That needs speeches
Bites for press releases
Justifying
All those people
In the street
And the street
No longer,
Well,
No longer there
Picking up each other
That we no longer do
Because we were made numbers
Then like gum on penciled math
The strategy erased
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C L Couch
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After Release from Russian Custody, Focus Is on Providing Brittney Griner and Her Family Additional Support, Officials Say
Story by Aya Elamroussi • 6h ago
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Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash
Disruptive
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clcouch123 
December 12, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Wonderful.