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In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents Meep Matsushima's “The Believers,” with a reading by the poet.



Meep Matsushima is a disabled white genderqueer cis lesbian poet & librarian. Originally from New England, Meep got her name in Tokyo, and currently lives in the D.C. suburbs. Meep is a student at Hamline University’s MFA Writing for Children & Young Adults program. You can find her on Twitter as @transpacifique. Her website is http://meep-matsushima.neocities.org, and she has a Patreon at http://patreon.com/meep_matsushima.
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10 Aug 2026

the sleeping are so hard to distinguish / from the dead
We'd only lived in Arizona four years—it was our retirement place. But I'd died there, and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, “Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard" to be an elegy.
Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone
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