Tag: mourning
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A Story About A Poem: “The Mourning Robot”

In one of my favorite books, “On Earth We’re Briefly Beautiful” by Ocean Vuong, there is a surreal scene toward the end of the book where after a heartbreaking experience with his schizophrenic, cancer-torn grandmother, the main character wanders onto the night streets of Saigon and stumbles on a group of strangers in drag, dancing…