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We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.
Janice Mirikitani
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Janice Mirikitani
Age: 80 †
Born: 1941
Born: February 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 29
Poet
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
World
Flesh
Screaming
Behinds
Bigotry
Behind
Betrayed
Faces
Wire
War
Yellow
Body
Racism
Barbed
Made
Bodies
Silenced
Believe
Loud
Needing
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