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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Margaret Atwood

It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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
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 would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Air Love Sleep Unnoticed
I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
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Children Fall Summer
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
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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Cards Credit Individual
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
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Character Gossip School
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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Hurt Intention Need Someone

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