Today’s poem is Grading Rubric by Antonio de Jesús López. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s brilliant poem speaks to the ordeal of enduring racial abuse and microaggressions in educational institutions. It slyly appropriates an academic assessment tool to point out that we are clearly failing in treating each other like whole humans.”

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