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There is no fool like an educated fool.

Margaret Atwood

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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Grow Survival Wood
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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Dignity Ignorance Poetry
I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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Able Away People Walk
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Awkward Boys Girl
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Fear Lying Night
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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Animal Environmental Meat
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Art Light Shine
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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Ignorant Shame Way
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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Alive Fact Prayer
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale

There is no fool like an educated fool.

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