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The Extinct
Imagine I’m the last woman on earth,
the snowiest plover, the loneliest

deep-sea-swimming whale. It’s not my fault, but
it might be. Should I keep changing until

I become something that has an other?
I’ve tried that. What else can I do for love?

Now not even the gray wolves listen to my
long litany of failures. They know I’m just

putting this self-sadness in my mouth—
a polar bear crunching seal bones between

her teeth—to get what little I can from it.
They still won’t let me blame myself:

When I tell them my name isn’t a song
to sing, they call it back to me again and again.

KEETJE KUIPERS
jubilat
Number 21

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