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Only Your Dead

October 1, 2025
Only Your Dead
By Anna Trevathan, Managing Editor
color corrected photograph of a red tree and ground against a turquoise sky
“Backroads of ten mile, Tennessee” | Bill Trout

why can it be only your dead, 

when it is already only your living, 

and it is already only your pain 


you think the only people worth mourning 

are the people who look and think like you 

the men who yell for your cause-


who caused your causation. 


youโ€™ll never hear the cries of students

that you silence to sound the sirens- 

for men who wouldnโ€™t do the same for you. 


i know every teardrop, soaked into my memory, 

stapled into my soul, stories worth listening,

worth memorizing and regurgitating-


if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, 

and listen to the words of your living 

youโ€™ll begin to learn from your dead.

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