Reproducing my novel here in tribute. Those who read it k/now why.

https://toddpanther.medium.com/at-the-dark-end-of-sesame-street-the-autobiography-of-roosevelt-franklin-or-coup-tube-the-prose-fe01514e9fd9

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Love eats away your death – a poem for Assata

Julia Wright

you are the Mother
of all ancestors

you let us know
our dead
as many as they are
have lost their shackles
and
though we weep
we can let them sleep

you reminded us
that the living
those still chained
throughout the darkened dungeons
need all our energy
because they are alive
and
can still be saved
from tortuous pain

but you –
you are alive
in our hearts

but you –
you walk at our side

but you –
you whisper to us
that just as Love
eats away
all bars,
Love
eats away
your death

(c) Julia Wright September 27th 2025. All Rights Reserved.