PoetryMikhail Abadd
The Roads Don't Work
Proletarian throngs lurk morning and night / Moving through cracks and sodium lights / Angry at man but broken by plight
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Est. 2051
Literature of the Working World
Humanity is defined by our creations. Both in labor and letters.
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Est. 2051
Founded in Toil, Forged in flame
The Toilers University of the West was established in 2051 by a coalition of industrialorganizers, agricultural laborers, and working writers who believed that the arts and education belonged to everyone. We have never charged tuition for cadres. Our archive is a testament to the enduring power of those who build, tend, and carry the world.
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.— Karl Marx
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PoetryMargaret Scholl
Shadows on the Wall
I am warm in the cave watching shadows dance on the wall. / I would be a fool to leave this delight. / Experience is reflected by these shapes.
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EssayElijah Moore
That Which Binds Man
Three voices — an official, a wife, a soldier — trace the violence that unmakes and remakes the human will in the face of war.
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PoetryMikhail Abadd
Absinthium — Part One
Long ago lived a town, one of tall pigs. / Greed filled their hearts so down they did dig. / Deep in the ground, what they found, it was big.
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