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Human in the LoopJonathan Harrell’s Commonplace Book

When he, my father, closed his eyes
and breath and his body became

a bridge he had left behind on a journey and
they wheeled him down the stairs,

she, my mother, sprang after them.
She cried out:

My name is
inside his tongue. I need to get it back. Vows by Gbenga Adesina, excerpt