little legs sprout up from the tiled floor. I pull my feet up in the chair and watch insects crawl on the bodies of 32 college students that cannot see them. their clicking mechanical pencils pin the bodies of beetles and drag them across their papers as they take notes.
I realize two things:
nature
is harmless
and you have to believe in science;
it's sealed in blood.
Author notes
killing off the lesser portion of the beetle population in order to understand why they're the lesser portion of the beetle population
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this is brilliant. your authors notes especially.
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oh. i forgot these.
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i like
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woah. this is great. love the authors' ending. it was hilarious. or maybe it's just my brain cells bumping onto each other. oh well.
this was brilliant anyways. about that, i am sure. poignant, and yes- exceptional.
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for some reason, i really like how specific '32 college students' was... you already know the ending was amazing, and the author notes made me smile a little.
this was very interesting, and very well written
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and you have to believe in science;
it's sealed in blood.
i like your poetry, it's different.
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thanks
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Fits the list.
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"nature
is harmless
and you have to believe in science;
it's sealed in blood." - poignant. neat read.
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thanks
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This
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brilliant.
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thank you
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i came to see what a real thought looks like.
and in notorious' words... OH MY DARWIN!
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thanks, i'm glad you like it
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Reminds me of the huge Bio final I have in a few days and have yet to study for. And the fact that I have to dissect a rat on Monday- gross.
Anyway,
I like this. Especially the ending realization.
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thanks, and good luck on your final
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No problem, thank you
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Do you know what a pleasure it is to reread this?
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you killed it. i agree with nick and danny. they're always right.
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lol thanks
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odd to say the least, wow, i am left speechless by it
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Wow. This is really well-written and deep - amazing how much you can say with only a few simple words.
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thanks
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this is really good matt. i had more to say about this poem but nick beat me to it :-(
sorry
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lol, you also drank a glass of orange juice once and realized that we all die?
I drink orange juice all the time and I still haven't realized that we all die -
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nah it was an amy hempel quote, as so many of the things that nick and i say are
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ohhhh, I see. so neither you or nick actually drank a glass of orange juice and realized that we all die?
I find myself disappointed, slightly.
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once i drank a glass of orange juice and realized that we all die
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do you follow a religion?
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not really, currently. i practice the buddhist moral code, but if i had to label myself, i guess i'm ignostic
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the only thing that bothers me about this poem is the word choice in "i accept two things"
"accept" has a sense of reluctance to it, and though it fits with the last two lines well, it doesn't seem like you'd be reluctant to accept the harmlessness of nature. but i don't know what word would work better. this is really good though
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it's funny that you mention that because I changed that word so many times, because I didn't think it fit well either. I went between "accept" and "know" and "realize" a billion times and have still not come to any real conclusion.
although right now i'm leaning toward "realize"
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what about 'understand'
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how can I choose when all the choices are equal? sigh
thanks though
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yeah, that's better
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eek
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OH MY DARWIN.
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well i guess a real poet finds poetry in everything. these musings are deep that's for sure. my best to you in the contest.
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god. that's all i'm going to be thinking about in biology tomorrow. thanks X)
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