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Not for your sake, but
mine, at airports and on planes
I act extra nice.
"Being Arab," by poet Hayan Charara.
Last month The Los Angeles Times called for
Opinion poetry by Times readers, and above was one of my favorites.
Who knew?
When we put out a call for Op-Ed poetry, we had no idea how many budding poets were out there. But by the time the Aug. 16 deadline rolled around, we'd gotten more than 1,500 submissions, many of them including multiple poems. There was even one, by E. Milton Wilson of Claremont, addressing the plight of the opinion editors: “The deadline nears. The poets have spoke. Editors wish about now it had all been a joke!”
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