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On Being Fired Again

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What is with our insistence to fit our lives into neat narratives that follow the arc of struggle to triumph? Life seldom follows so neat a script. "On Being Fired Again" is Erin Belieu's disobedient reclamation of another perspective. Where others see failure, she finds freedom. This poem comes from her collection, One Above & One Below.
26 May English South Africa Arts · Society & Culture

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