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Our political statement this week:
Free Palestine, no war in Iran, lift the sanctions.Weekly Poem from Ruby Carr
We’ve been blessed with a crazy submission.
Famous Canadian poet Ruby Carr has contacted us with a brand new poem straight from her head, and she wanted us to put it out with the newsletter!
Yes, that’s right! The world famous author of Milk and Honey ACTUALLY wanted us to publish this original poem.
Thank you so much, Ruby!
can you make the last time you see a penny today
Because we don’t know when we will die
We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well
Yet everything happens only a certain number of times
And a very small number, really
How many more times will you remember a certain penny
Some penny that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive your life without it?
Perhaps four or five times more
Perhaps not even that
How many more times will you see a penny?
Perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems limitless
Ruby Carr
I just want to make it SO clear that we are HUGE fans of Ruby’s poetry, which we mainly hear read aloud on Instagram Reels. In fact, we’ve never read a single thing she’s put to the page, only listened. Hell, we’ve never even looked at the cover of one of her books, or seen how her name is spelled! Everything we know about her is from sound.
We’re amazed that she knows who we are and was interested in publishing this new, original poem with us. We are so truly absolutely glad.
Honestly, now that we’re thinking about it, we didn’t even google it to see if she’d already published it somewhere else or anything. It’s too late to now, since we’re sending the newsletter off in about two minutes! It just goes to show how our rigorous efforts to prevent plagiarism just go out of the window when it comes to a golden opportunity like this!
Here’s Ruby in her own words:
“I wrote this all by myself the other day when I was feeling contemplative. You know, with the penny shortage and everything? The penny represents the kind of insignificant detail that we tend to gloss over… Sometimes, when I’m feeling pretty serious, I just put the pen to the page and come up with a poem like this by myself.“
Our biggest pull yet. Wow! We’re fangirling out over here!
What’s Next RE: Sentenced’s Stories, Articles, and Multimedia Projects?
The live show VOD will come out soon! It’s very close to being done. The thing about what our editor has decided to do is that it’s too time intensive to get a return on investment, and also too incompetent to even look professional or feel like it’s been done by someone who knows what they’re doing. Thank you for understanding how long this is taking and tolerating a statement about it every single week.
We’re having a public town hall/party meeting soon! Yeah, whatever. We don’t even remember if we fucking said that already.
Here’s a new approach we’re taking for our marketing:
We might have a story or article out in the next week. It’s currently unclear. But, we’d like to probably post something at the end of the week. I suppose that, if you want to know, you’ll just have to stay posted on all of our social media and pay attention to us. In the meantime, if you haven’t already, go read the last thing we published: The Red Internets by Jocelyn Boulding! https://sentencedlit.org/the-red-internets/
