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A Wuhan delivery worker ponders life’s agonies through poetry

Jia Li · China · Documentary / Poem · 10 min · 6.1K views

During Wuhan's COVID-19 outbreak, migrant delivery worker Zhang Sai carries supplies through a locked-down city and reflects on hardship through his own poetry.

An unromantic, intimate portrait of a frontline gig worker who finds his voice in verse.

At the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Zhang Sai was one of the many frontline migrant workers responsible for delivering essential supplies, risking illness and insults that are directed at most low-wage worke

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