Instructions for Repairing a Robot Black Boy
For my whole life, people have seemed too fleshy. I don’t understand how they can feel so deeply
For my whole life, people have seemed too fleshy. I don’t understand how they can feel so deeply
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Three anagram poems by Jia-Rui Cook
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Three anagram poems by Jia-Rui Cook
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