Brenda Cárdenas — This Is Why
Poetry Unbound
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The Importance of Taking Sides
The final line of the poem why would you miss that is in italics. can be so much part of moments of transition when you're a parent or an uncle or an aunt or whoever with charge for some younger people. In a certain sense this poem is tapping into something that for generations millennia and millennia world literature has been asking about the relationship between authority and freedom. It's lovely to read a poem like this that has levity in the back of my mind i think of all the people who would think about our experience and our family about that has got nothing to do with levity it's got to do with devastation.
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