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Kate Foran
Hartford Climate Strike After the speeches and chanting and rallying cries for action, the climate strike ends with a die-in. I shove the cardboard sign your sister scrawled for you, Old enough to save the planet under my head. You lie down and flip and flop around, engineering a position for your body on my stomach, and then you sit up again and look around at the crowd of kids skipping school and the hobby protestors. In the quiet everyone hears your urgent sotto voce, I’m ready to be all done now. I hush you and say A few more minutes. Eleven to be exact, one for each year 2020
