987: Totalitarian

Today’s poem is Totalitarian by Tyler Mills. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.
In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem makes the case that there are occasions in which I cannot let apathy rule, that the assaults on human dignity are so large, I must speak through my stunned witnessing.”
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