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Being In Love is Like
Finding a million / Bucks in your pants each day for / The rest of your life
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Oct 23, 2013
Cog
You are a cog in a great machine, / Free to do whatever you please, / Just so long as you keep spinning.
3
Sep 4, 2012
Demand
Perhaps we ask the Earth too much. / Instead of giving it a crutch / We demand tee-vees and jets and such
11
Nov 30, 2011
Existentialism
Out on the frozen Charles, / alone but for the creak / of the ice beneath,
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Nov 30, 2011
From An Airplane
From an airplane / The clouds / Are a soft
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Sep 3, 2012
I Can't Wait
I can’t wait till class is over / And my homework is all done. / I can’t wait until my eyes are
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Nov 30, 2011
I Could, But I don't
I could read or write by golden light / As it sifts between the leaves; / I could stand atop a mountain high
11
Nov 30, 2011
Optimism in the Face of Terrible Odds
We'll all be dead in a million years, / Perhaps much sooner than that. / The way we go about our lives
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Nov 30, 2011
Osmosis
Osmose with me / Into perfect symmetry. / Our membranes transfer me to you
13
Nov 30, 2011
Perspective
In the time it took to read these lines / A million mayflies were born and died / In half a blink of the cosmic eye.
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Sep 3, 2012
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