Supernatural s6 Codas
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Slowly
I could feel the darkness fill
my eyes and the dream that came was
of a bright world where sunlight
fell on the long even rows of houses
and I looked down from great height
at a burned world I believed
I never had to enterfrom Phillips Levine's "At Bessemer"
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- Part 1 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.from Naomi Shihab Nye's "The Rider"
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- Part 2 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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Once I believed the heart
was like a bar of soap — the more you use it,
the small it gets; care too much and it'll snap offin your grasp.
from Jeffery McDaniel's "The Everlasting Staircase"
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- Part 3 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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love being such,or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is darkfrom ee cumming's "supposing i dreamed this)"
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- Part 4 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.from Wislawa Szymborska's "A Word on Statistics"
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- Part 5 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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Secrecy flows through you,
a different kind of blood.
It's as if you've eaten it
like a bad candy,
taken it into your mouth,
let it melt sweetly on your tongue,
then allowed it to slide down to your throat
like the reverse of uttering,
a word dissolved
into its glottals and sibilants,
a slow intake of breath -and now it's in you, secrecy.
from Margaret Atwood's "Secrecy"
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- Part 6 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happinessfrom Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "I Am Waiting"
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- Part 7 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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I have longed to move away but am afraid;
Some life, yet unspent, might explode
Out of the old lie burning on the ground,
And, crackling into the air, leave me half-blind.from Dylan Thomas's "I have longed to move away"
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- Part 8 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is forfrom Don Marquis' "The Lesson of the Moth"
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- Part 9 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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No, I'll not take the half of anything!
Give me the whole sky! The far-flung earth!
Seas and rivers and mountain avalanches--
All these are mine! I'll accept no less!from Yevgeny Yevtushenko "No, I'll not take the half..."
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- Part 10 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere.from Charle Simic's "Late September"
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- Part 11 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named.
We name it the past and drag it behind us,
bag like a lung filled with shadow and song,
dreams of running, the keys to lost names.from Dorianne Laux "Dark Charms"
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- Part 12 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.from Li-Young Lee's "From Blossoms"
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- Part 13 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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you must remember, it is your
feet that are on backward. your
organs disarrayed throughoutyour torso. and yet your love
holds onto that string, sendsyou flying.
from Marty McConnell's "to love a liar"
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- Part 14 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.from Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art"
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- Part 15 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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There is having by having
and having by remembering.
All of it a glory, but what is past
is the treasure.from Linda Greg's "Winning"
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- Part 16 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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he said are you a religious man do you knee down
in forest groves and let yourself ask for help
when you come to a waterfall
mist blowing against your face and arms
do you stop and ask for understanding at those moments
I said not yet but I intend to start todayfrom Raymond Carter's "What the Doctor Said"
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- Part 17 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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I know what it is you
want from me
but you see
I cannot give it
I am hell
and hell
is a nice place to visit
but when you want to leave
you want to leavefrom Daniel Williams's "Pluto to Persephone"
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- Part 18 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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Morning
owes you nothing. She isfickle, she is strong. Only
to Morning does Morning
belong. As she takes you
into the day, onto the old
wide way of the world, she
sings so intimate a song you
may begin to believe sheloves you.
from Todd Boss's "The World Does Not Belong to You,
Though You Belong to the World"Series
- Part 19 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.from Charles Bukowski's "oh yes"
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- Part 20 of Supernatural s6 Codas
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- English
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