J. Redel

Perhaps The World Will End At The Kitchen Table

Bottles. Iphone6s

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table,

while we are laughing

and crying,

eating of the last sweet bite.

— Jo Harjo from poem Perhaps the World Ends Here

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