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Tag: poem of life

Posted on September 24, 2014

Quote: Distillation

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Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade

I learned
to sit at desk
and condense

No layoff
from this
condensery

from Poet’s Work by Lorine Niedecker

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There didn't seem to be much point, with things the way they were, but you don't just lie down in the desert and wait to die. You keep going down the road ahead of you, even if you know the end that's waiting for you. You don't know why you keep going. You just do.
—Amiant Soul

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