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We Got Future

SWWIM Every Day
by Pam Williams
 

Future? I drink coffee first. When I’m done my coffee, rinse it out. Gotta eat after coffee. Snack at night after six. I know it’ll rain. I don’t like rain. I. Don’t. Like. Rain. Rain makes me scared. Storms, lightning. I’m tired of looking at rain. In ten years, I’m going to be bored. Not doing nothing. Watching TV all day. Watching football. I like getting prizes. I like doing books. I’ll be watching crime and football. I’m a TV watcher. I like football a lot. That’s on today. I like the future. The future wakes me up in the night.

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Her name is Pam Williams. She is a Black poet and winner of the 2026 Cow Tipping Prize, awarded to a writer with intellectual/developmental disabilities. She knows herself. Everyone around here knows her name. They call her Pamela or Pam. She likes herself. She’d like to be friends with anybody here.

 

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