Poem of the Moment

Poem of the Moment

“I thought I could memorize enough facts to stay composed in debates and not cry after one glass of wine when my brother says we can all just go to Mars.

That’s Natasha Rao in “What It Was Like” from the American Poetry Review. I relate to these lines so, so much–not in the sense that my brother talks like that, fortunately. But in the general sense of preparing for conversations in this way, fruitlessly.

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