East Tennessee State University - Buccaneer Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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i am not afraid, (tho they shove and push around me till my brain must strain to remember that there is order even to chaos.) no, i cannot fear the many for they are like me. they rose at seven too they fought the traffic, the cafeteria lines. they listened to the same lecture. they found one bright, familiar note in three hours of classes. they saw speckled boredom in late afternoon. they know night-long hours of study, panicking yet serene. they dash zig-zagging to the meetings and meetings and meetings . . . no, i cannot fear the many. 4

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fearless to the point of victory i stand alone emitted from the purple corridor of nameless faces sunshine streaming upon me i feel my uniqueness. they are like me but i alone am me. i alone feel the apartness, a comfortable distance between. i walk out from them down steps another sidewalk. i pass them. no, they are not me. they are over there, around behind beside before but not me. from my vantage point i group them and there is sense, i can think and feel and place them, and my uniqueness is self-evident, i know i am different they are enmassed, i am alone . . . me.