[the Writing of Kuypers]
over and over again
a science book, a volume
how the world works
once he looked though the pages
of planet earth, how it was
temperature would rise, all life
and reading that it was
with the fear, the instant panic:
one volume from the rest,
when he walked through his
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death
when he was a child, a little boy, he
would walk through the living room
he would see the book on the shelf
from a set: a book about
found a drawing about the life
formed, how eventually the
on earth would eventually die
millions of years away didn’t help
so he took the book, hid the
so he wouldn’t have to see it
own living room
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