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Hi there, it's Major.

Today we're reaching into the archives to bring you an episode from

Ada Limon's time as host. I'm thrilled to revisit one of her episodes with you. And don't worry,

the team is hard at work on a relaunch with a new host.

I'm Ada Limonone and this is the slowdown. I was once sitting with my husband at a local bar in Kentucky, and the woman next to him was

chatty. Too chatty. I could sense a desperation that made me silent and withdrawn, while he, ever

the nicest human being on earth, put up with her non-stop jawing. Finally, exasperated that I wasn't also

engaging in the conversation, she yelled, does she even speak English? We left the bar soon after

that. We laughed about it, made light of it. She wanted me to know that I didn't belong.

She was the kind of woman who would have told me to go back to my country,

which is, I guess, the country of California.

I wonder what people mean when they say,

go back to where you came from. Where is that? Stars?

In today's complex poem, we see what those hateful stereotypes might do. Poet, Evie Shockley,

reimagines what would happen if everyone packed up and left this country,

took with them every stereotype, every oversimplified image, and left.

In my mind, it's red in the voice of that spiteful woman at the bar.

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