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Harlem Nocturne.

"I want to be as self-possessed as the whales I have come across. I want to trust myself as implicitly as they seem to trust themselves. I want to build something different than the system that has left all of us, whales and women alike, struggling with every aspect of our reproductive lives. And for those who have ever been demeaned by a questionnaire, a sampling procedure, or a numerical metric, I wish to return their dignity." —Mary Beth Rew Hicks via

They want us to go home.

   some say nothing's more
glorious than an unmarked
   van with masked men

taking away parents who came
to pick up their school children

Stockholm.