Hindsight 2020
conversation takes time
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institutional voices
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from the catbird seat, words count
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mumbles and whispers, it's not what they shout
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peaceable assembly
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all news is local
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subtle divides to the open airs
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all the way through god's green gates
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shake the ruts of America
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dazzled by false choices brother
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sometimes, precipice
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allowed to rise most stand on their own together
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draws attention to the nouns, but it's the verbs that mount
Juror's award: National Collage Association's 36th Annual Competition
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a brief history of little tin gods would serve us well
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and still, we have his bridge to cross again (Senator John Lewis)
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wasps in the rose garden is a long standing problem for garden diversity
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showing the seams, the drywall tape, the glue
(rather than some rush of words, he simply said "black lives matter")
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in a flicker, a song replaced by drumming
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when frogs prevail, we call it plague
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the myth of monoliths, of all-of-a-kind
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which word does it sound like? which intent?
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too sleepy people
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the world is a large place, and I intend for it to be interesting
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reach
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