The Material Political & Protest and would rather gouge out

and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics

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and the elasticity of memory

and has the wrong papers to enter the city of Jerusalem

her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper

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