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A blackout poem made from a page of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The text of the poem itself is circled, and the rest is blacked out in a way that gives a bubble-like effect. There are squiggles lining the right side of the page.

By K. Keidel

day and night
know end
know death
not why
the heaviest
skeletons of
Ruin crumble
the immortal face
… Nor think
waitest time.

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