"Poem After Failing Another Captcha" by Nico Santana

Nov 23, 2025

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Updated: Nov 24, 2025

Nico Santana is a Filipino poet from Quezon City whose poetry has been published in Bluestem Magazine, Midway Journal, and TLDTD, among others. Aside from poetry, he likes to write scripts and storyboards for comics and video games he never plans to actually make.

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