Rooted

"I promised myself I wouldn't write songs of an empire's end..."

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Maggie McCombs
Jul 12, 2025
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Author note: This post was originally published on Medium in The Interstitial publication. I recommend any of the many stories and poems there.

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They’ve laid our way in lessons, multifarious, in being hated.
Standing in the rubble of one nation, playing god,
roots creeping in at us from those mahogany rooms, crafting…
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