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Poem by Ayat Bryant-Jalal

By Ayat Bryant-Jalal
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Humanity lay dismembered

In knitted satchels

Strewn along pavement

Thrown from the buildings

Families kicked out,

their apartments removed

No body-parking on grass

Homes broken like sleep

Like the masses of those

Dotting the streets and doorways

— Ayat Bryant-Jalal

ink drawing by Ayar Bryant-Jalal
Detail from an ink drawing by Ayar Bryant-Jalal of a community under a city freeway
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