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Robert Pattinson, left, and Zendaya in The Drama. Photograph: AP
Trigger warning: Essay contains conversation around gun violence.
Spoiler warning also for those who haven’t seen the film.
In Retrospect with Frederick Joseph...
I wrote the poem below because I have grown tired of being summoned.
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I’m going to keep this short.
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Time is the rarest gift we are given, and the only one we are trained not to notice as it disappears. We speak of it casually, as if it belongs to us, as if it can be managed, saved, made more efficient, as if it is not, in fact, the substa...
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