LFE Unobituary

Radio Aurora: Letters from Earth by Radio Aurora

Oct 8, 201700:07:50Society & Culture

From the midst of Northern California's wildfires, I keep writing the devastation of my homeland, Puerto Rico, borrowing from Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary.

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