# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ztgKxnWhH
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73155575-fromthebowseat-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-04-10T17:01:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs 🪸 (@fromthebowseat) — https://gondola.cc/fromthebowseat

## Caption

We are celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth with AkhilaBandlora's "never forget": .
the girl with sea foam fingers writes letters
on napkins left on beaches like loose change,
words stumbling down staircases of five-seven-five haikus
— i want an ocean,
the one mama whispers of,
when she eats, sleeps, prays —
she ties them to the webbed foot of a seagull,
sends it off to the governor–
“the tide is coming.”
he laughs, the kind of laugh that corrodes,
shoos the seagull — lulls it to sleep with plastic wrappers and bottles —
throws the napkin away to land up exactly where the girl found it,
dips his pen into the seagull’s carcass to sign a bill
for a factory to dump their industrial waste into the ocean
— man made trashcan.

The girl’s eyes are seismic; the world shifts.
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As well as being a talented poet, Akhila is a passionate advocate for climate justice. "I fight against climate change because it operates on various systems of oppression, specifically racism, and I fundamentally believe effectively addressing climate change is the first step to dismantling those systems." You can read Akhila's full poem through the link in our bio ➡️"Featured Poem."
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