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Miao? Wow! · Aug 1, 2026

Mátulain: Future Tense

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Mátulain is not just a series focusing on my poetry—instead, it follows my continuing love story with the art. Full disclosure: This is something I wrote on May 3, 2020.

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No one wants to think about
tomorrow—what “tomorrow”?—
when today is hard enough.
No one promised us a future
quite like the one that’s unfolding
in the year 2020.
No one told doomsday preppers
that masks and bleach would be
more useful than guns and go bags.
No one warned the privileged few
that power doesn’t come with
a physical immunity to a pandemic.
No one expected community
and kindness and caring to be the
only currencies worth counting on.
No one is coming out of this
unscathed. Maybe no one will come
out of this at all. No one knows.

Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash

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