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Thoughts After Watching The Last of Us [1]

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Date: 2023-01-20

My girlfriend and I have been having a discussion about the idea of apocalypse. She is a Pomo Native American. I am the descendant of Russian Jews. Both of our cultures have in some ways been lost due to separate genocides. Genocides that are apocalypses. She has identified as a culture bearer all her life, teaching weaving, language, et cetera. In the time I’ve known her, I’ve come to understand what that means, and today, I broke and wrote this:



MOURNING PHASE

Post-apocalypse

Is trending again

How’s your

Adventure going?

I am still in mourning

For what I lost in the pogroms

And then again

In the 1940s

Born with flowers in my hair

I came of age to grunge music

I wore these skins as proxies

For a missing root connection

And so I mourn for borscht

And songs and language

I mourn for confidence

Purpose and legacy

I mourn for the time

I have lost getting here

I know I must find it—

My pre-apocalypse

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