DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Umbrellas, fragile flowers, grow in the hallways, drying. Easy to skip a class. To sleep all morning. The mattefinish of November. Do we forget the sun as well? Found someone. Birdwatching at dawn. Squisssshhh. Through the wet woods. Very quiet. Back to the Hub for coffee. See La Strada together . .. Walk to the Duck. tjingleBANG! goes the doom and listen to someonets guitar A tMitch, Mayre, Chichi, the names date yow and feel a warm finger move slowly down the nape of my neck. Right here. A hundred people. I don't give a damn. Warm. Cinnamon s p r e a d in g over thin Skin of the cider. Sticking to the side of the cup. Warm. Term paper. FRanth! desk tullofile- cards. Ibid. Ibid. I did. Ibid Ibis . . . I bid for an ibis. Truly a scholarly treatise. New Unexplored Realms of Academia. Being t charted forthe first time. Bah Hum Bug

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Hunched shoulders. Manymanymore leaves above her. Fan-shaped rake care- fully herding Nature's golden garbage to asmoky death. Pyramid of gold by the curbetr'om' her 't apron a pack of matches. Maybe saying , IGA. ' Smoke snaking magically for the flute of the wind. Wish I had a long goose-neck stickto toast a marshmallow. All the wayfrom third floor. Scary faces lie row on row in Murphy's. Grinnnnnnnnnnning. Corncandy har- vested at A 84 P. Brach's. Big bags of it. Kids like candy bars. Road to Rockville houses have PUMPKINS FOR $ALE scat- tered on front lawns. Sharp knife. News- paper. Messy floor anyway. Is there any other way? Every year a HUGE pumpkin replaces the head of the Owl at East College. lknow who the guys are. Ut's a secretJ They rob a farmer's field. And then November. My God. How dismal. How wet. Trees are silent skeletons. Houses are warm and bright. Air is silent. The whole town listens to one dog barking. Time for winter coats. And boots to brave the rushingtide in the gutter.

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Time to order a pizza Mushrooms are really brains of little genius elves. Coming to save countless term papers. I am a poor scholar. Haphazard research. What if this is brilliant? What if this is bullshit? HThe worlddecides what is valuable, not the creator. There are no Band-Aids in Russia. What an opportunity for Johnson 84 Johnson. What is important? WHAT THE HELL IS IMPORTANT?? Boys are whistling Bridge Over the River Kwait' Walking under streetlights Hands in their pockets Kicking leaves Whistling. This town is TOO GODDAM BIG!! this town is too piddling small . .. I know every dog and cat along Locust Street. White Persian Cocker spaniel kittenthatgotrunover droopy basset hound Gingertadopted by Big-Hearted Cy . . . remember GeorgeD i know every crack in the pavement. every studddded manhole cover.