it could be
i majored in creative writing
years ago
to get deathly tired of thinking about myself
so that now
i can say
no more, i can leave it at that,
and resume. this.
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If future generations are to remember us with gratitude, rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
–Lyndon B Johnson
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The real prayers are not words, but the attention that comes first. –Mary Oliver
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