Today’s poem is Totalitarian by Tyler Mills. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem makes the case that there are occasions in which I cannot let apathy rule, that the assaults on human dignity are so large, I must speak through my stunned witnessing.”

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