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It's been kind of a hell of a couple of days, which has included things like the power going out at 3am during a huge storm last night (we got it back eventually), my computer dying, shelling out for a new computer, not getting nearly enough sleep, several migraines, and a whole bunch of meetings with wedding vendors. I need to catch up on poetry, but I'm posting this from the new computer, which is still a work in progress (although also very shiny and beautiful), and I am very tired, so I am making my job a little easier tonight.

For a lot of reasons—including the fact that it's time-consuming and annoying to re-code in html—I don't post a lot of poetry that relies on on-the-page formatting. But every once in a while I read one that's so fucking good that I can't resist. And in this case, I am just going to link it instead of reposting it: Obligations 2 by Layli Long Soldier, from New Poets of Native Nations, 2018. It's extraordinary.