Oxford Hills High School - Dreki Yearbook (South Paris, ME)

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RATIONALIZATION OF MEN Row on row The corrigated monsters Lift their massive heads. Copper, iron, coal Intermingle - riotous colors, Heaven sent superstructure. Hearing, breathing, writhing. Life blood coursing through granite veins. Serenely viewing men's frenzied attempts. Only to remain silent when they are gone. Still - man is alive mountains are not. Sarah Gibson 160

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the mist rose and with it she appeared down down into the valley she went always searching reaching but never to End herself! Carol Rice A moonless night, and I walk alone by a lake. I gaze skyward and am filled with beauty. My eyes fall to the glassed-over lake and the stars in their remote nothingness are below me. ' My soul expands and I feel, I know that to step into the water would mean to fall for an eternity towards the stars. My feet, but inches from the abyss, step . . I walk home crying in wet sneakers. Mark Otterson 159

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PURPLE, PLASTERED PEOPLE Purple, plastered people push Perfection is their ideal Though they know not but to squeal Crazed incapabilities prevail Ruinous creeping minds assail Tasks they know nothing of Though their s-elf - confidence is love Of perfection, pride and beauty, Its direction is twisted. They think of surface wealth And regard the inner self With stupidity and stealth. Kris Kaustinen 161