2020 Second Spring Literary Anthology

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It Doesn’t Much Matter whether people care or not. What matters is that people alter this world. The planet. Whose sixth mass extinction is an event of our own making. And this one will continue to determine the course of life long after everything humans have written, and painted, and built has been ground into dust, and giant rats have—or have not— inherited the earth. By Janet Joyner

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