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Star Student

21st
Feb. × ’08
By Amy Simone Piller

“We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”- Barack Obama
I am worried for youin a way I can no longer affordto worry for myself—knowing the limits of my own hopefulnessthe ways I canpick myself up,
the [...]

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Train Home

21st
Feb. × ’08
By Amy Simone Piller

I ate your chocolate on the way homeawaiting canned laughteronly you could make realby sideways glances.
I am goodat the wrong things,embarrassed for not knowing better about happiness.
We are each other’s inflections. “I knew I was happy then but looking back, I wasn’t.”And you who was,retort “I never knew.”
If only we could combine these,lay [...]

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Curious

21st
Feb. × ’08
By Amy Simone Piller

Along First Avenuehouses line upbetween what was and what isboarded up windowsmust lie in mere frameswhere within light once streamed.
Traversing distancein exponential leavescommuters face the inexplicableblocks of outlines compiled.Fracturing venom and phloem backstacked apartments.Our supposed to senses distribute neural notionsSelf-creating disconnectionsin search of wonder only alonein unknowing.
And yet I want to tell youthat this morning [...]

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