Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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ll I i l i 5 2 it I: it t l i ellxx' I I want him to know the sneaky, subtle, important reason he was l born a human being . . .and not 1 ci chair -1000 Clowns Arrested process, trapped in tilm: The general You stood amid the coliseum walls, under the down-turned thumbs ot Neros who spill tunspillablel coursing blood onto the time engrained sands There, by habit, your blood ran as rivers run. i l You have lifted its confused, meandering history. You have taken it in your hands fthat coveri binding fragments ot l the river's tloodj- 5 ,X--X it is touchstone, if you believe in life as a river fits blood and water onej, accepting river's water as your baptism and your birth, I tor you too were spilled out onto the sands: il 1 V iz .t.

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In short you drrrved alone, or 2 by 2 cmd sightless Kyet spllled and wundenng There was already talk of the sea. 1 Do you remember your f1ISf great bottle wrth hte the IIVGID Or drd you dritt, the dead debr1s of sxghtless, soundless unmoved days Perhaps it IS Clearer now Turning the pages ot the memory book the book ofthe s1ghts of the post, you may clearly see the strand. In th1s still-lite Cunpresent hte-J you moy see yourself from the distance 5V ,as