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    Latinx Heritage Month

    Dec 15, 2020 5 minutes
    MELISSA LUJAN MESKU

    MELISSA LUJAN MESKU is an engineer and the creator of the recursive literary project ➰➰➰. Her writing has appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Guernica, National Geographic, and Math Magazine.

    1.

    I work at a start-up. In the kitchen there is a flat-screen TV displaying inspirational quotes. Last week it featured a mix of quotes attributed to Henry Ford and Mark Zuckerberg.

    Ford: If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

    Zuckerberg: Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

    Zuck, trust me: I’d love to break everything in this place.

    2.

    Today, the flat-screen TV is different. Instead of inspirational quotes, now it’s a slideshow of my coworkers’ smiling faces,

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