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“While I was masturbating, more rainforest disappeared”

by Evan Hansen May 2, 2010 Aaron Kunin

In a poem called “Life,” which appears in his most recent collection, (Pitt Poetry, 2010), writes: “The feeling that mysticism / is the only way to be polite…. / While I was masturbating, / more rainforest / disappeared….” These disclosures feel true—and inevitable, given what at least I believe about climate change and humans continuing [...]

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