Self-defense (2021)

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Hate as a right is added to recycled images. Poetry is narrated on top of pictures that were not meant to be but, as stubborn as the poet's feeling, they exist.
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May 10, 2021
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Hate as a right is added to recycled images. Poetry is narrated on top of pictures that were not meant to be but, as stubborn as the poet's feeling, they exist.

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