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one night a group of poets 
gathered in a musical home
where a man called Scooter warned, 
“they will want to divide us. we can’t let them divide us.” 

i take a quiz online and learn that i am no superhero
that a desperate thunder storm makes me run for shelter 
that an unspoken curveball hurts my brain
i change my passwords but the unwanted 
still arrives
i want to be who i have always been 
but will it upset my mother long gone?
can i mother myself into knowing
tulips can’t thrive from these ashes
we can’t enjoy the purple speckle stem of the blood lilies
and the desert rose blossoms only 
when the sun shines brightly
nothing beautiful can bloom in hate dry land this
instead, let us gather together in a musical home
and listen to a man called Scooter 

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