the line is from natalie diaz. it's manhattan is a la, not a word. and it's interesting though because, you know when you think about time is like whose time are you thinking about? right. i was reading victor lovell's book, new book and and it was talking about how they were given on black folks, letting them become homesteaders in manhattan. and he was telling them, come, colonize these lands is like, what does that mean? you know, what part of what part of the history that we complicate for ourselves when we think about where we position against some horrible hardship. tragedies occurred. i'll read this one. this is long i got excited because poets don't get to read this long that's why to so many saying but dawn my second so this is the artwork accompanies it. dawn my second semester at yale law school i carried around the letters of a dead man. i began to think of them as small pieces. the prison cells that once held them. the letters were for glenn mcginnis. execute it on january 25th, 2000, for the murder of leonard. and all i know of her is t