"Today, I broke your solar system. Oops. / My bad. Your graph said I was supposed / to make a nice little loop around the sun." Fatimah Asghar reads her poem "Pluto Shits on the Universe," which was published in April in Poetry magazine, at the 2015 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Rockford, Illinois.
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