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"on the days I want to be alive I tell myself I deserve a marching band / or at least a string section to announce my arrival
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"I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, / pondering the riddle of power / and the reasons for obedience."
Sunflowers by Jenny George
"Having died / all the way back to the root, I grow again / into a version of the thing I love"
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