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# The Sealey Challenge Day 20
- URL: https://www.richardjnewman.com/microblog/the-sealey-challenge-day-20/
- Published: 2026-08-20T21:09:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-20T21:09:31.000Z
- Author: Richard Jeffrey Newman
- Tags: Microblog, thesealychallenge2026

## The Sealey Challenge Day 20

> By day, I ask of those who come to me for answers,  
> what would you say, asked by a poet

> whose tongue and nails have been removed, whose nipples  
> are cratered with ash, to account for your freedom?

—*from* “Evensong,” *i*n *Perpetua,* by Olga Broumas

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