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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

encore [1224]: Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Our episode today is one of many from the archives. We’ll be back tomorrow with more new poetry and reflection!


Today’s poem is Here We Are by Lauren K. Watel. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.


In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem begins from the idea that we yearn for connection and healing, but that our conflicts feel irreconcilable — to the point that we do not trust a future free of our trauma, grief, and suffering.”


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1:05.0

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

1:19.3

Thank you. and this is the slowdown. I grew up in a section of North Philadelphia that was predominantly black and Latino.

1:26.0

It bordered brewery town, which was predominantly white, particularly German, Polish, and Irish.

1:34.9

As a kid, my friends and I had to walk through Brewery Town in order to get to Fairmount Park.

1:42.0

But often we ran.

1:49.8

White kids yelled names, threatened harm, threw bottles at us.

1:58.3

Our older brothers crossed Girard Avenue to steal bikes from unsuspecting kids, which fueled even more animosity. The racial tension ran high back then.

2:04.2

Incidents of mass fights broke out.

2:07.7

Philadelphia, like the world,

2:10.5

was a city of ethnic enclaves

2:13.0

where each group suffered its fair share

2:16.0

of extreme hate and abuse.

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