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when i am old, i'll read books, whole libraries of them.
and collect them like rocks, stored in deep wooden shelves.
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when i was young, i collected rocks.
(my best friend and i would sit, knees bent, heels to the ground,
and dig through them at the school yard.)
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for now, i collect desires, and flip through them like cards,
seeing each face up before they disappear into the pile.
