KNEE BRACE PRESS

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  • On the left: A white person with brown hair, colorful glasses, and purple lipstick wearing a blue shirt. On the right:A white woman with light brown hair smiling with her mouth closed. The photo is a selfie. Also pictured: a bookcase in the background and a (really cute) brown and black cat.

    Reason

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    In their new poem Reason, Knee Brace alumni Elise Scott and April McCloud write about the stark contrast between the speaker’s devastation about losing their healthcare and the calm with which the robot over the phone changed the speaker’s life forever.