Listening to Long Covid’s Lessons and Teachers—Today and Tomorrow
We will adapt. We will find new nesting places. But there will be no return to “before.” Not for the flock.
We know things,
I see you’re new here. Let me tell you how it’s going to be.
you are ours now we will show you how things are done, where did you come from what did you learn along the way here is my number—text anytime!
s.e. smith is a National Magazine Award-winning Northern California-based writer who has appeared in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Bitch Magazine, and numerous other fine publications.
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