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Northwestern Wildcats (College Poetry)

Northwestern Wildcats Take a walk around this school by the lake andyou will encounter a Rock.Wildcats go east of the courtyard between Harris and University Hall many steps after marching through the archto mark this boulder with Northwestern Stripes and

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Maintenance

*Maintenance* I’ve got to do some inside Maintenance, beforeI can even consider having company. I’ve got way too much junk in here, and although I could use some company, I’m dreading the ringing of the doorbell, becauseI am far from

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Empire

*Empire* I will take these two hands and with cracked then bloody knuckles I’ll build an Empire.I will build a fortress out of rubble,I’ll wear myself down to a stubble.I will then make an autonomous list:Then I will rulewith an

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Supermassive Black Hole Ablaze

*Supermassive Black Hole Ablaze* Your Effigy is my MuseAnd it Ignites as ILight the Fuse. My affection was carved in stone—It was a monumentBeloved—to Behold…Now the world is watching it burn.Burn, baby, burn. *** S-B-H is my MuseAnd it Ignites

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Sign

*Sign* Jay’s BBQ Potato Chips—2/$5Only we are too busy trying to read each other. We both roam about this aisle—But neither is making a move. I feel the tension as strongly as the Peach Snapple that’s in my hands,but without

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Sides

*Sides* Take Sides.Then take cover.Command your SurroundingsAnd warn adjutants of opposed troops.Shield the fort that your team has builtFromWannabees&TurncoatsAnd always be on the lookout forFifth Columnists.There is a security in these arms, butEverybody knows that the same colors don’t alwaysShade

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People Who Walk Slow in the Wintertime

*People Who Walk Slow in the Wintertime* You know it getsCold Outside,Why do people walk slow in theWintertime? The temperature is frosty and frigid—but is much colder when you’re all alone.It’s too much for me to bear, while IPower walk—They

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She & He

*She and He* She wore a trim pink tank top…That was the color of her nursery five years ago.They named her Rachel, and she was the newest of three…a welcomed addition to theFamily.She holds the brown skin & heart of

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Scrapbook

*Scrapbook* Precious carats of time cannot be restored—Not even byChips off the block.We can only pick up the scrapsand protect this lasting jewel,Even when the next generationFalls Apart. From Art of Mind III: The Evolution of a TrilogyCopyright © 2013

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Georgia State University (Alma Mater – College Poetry)

From Alma Mater Vol. 4: The South. You can read the full four-volume Alma Mater collection here. *Georgia State University* Whaaaaaaatttt up, A-Town!We are Live, Live, Live! Comin’ atcha from downtown ATL,Album 88, Left on the Dial, Right on the

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