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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.

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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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