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To prove particle exist

A blackout poem made from a page of poetry by Emily Dickinson. The page is colored in with black marker, leaving only some words remaining. White ink is drawn around these words to make it look like they're torn out of the page. The words on the page are handwritten in white in a different order on a grid in the center left. Next to them, in the middle, is illegible scribbles of handwriting. In the bottom left are drawings of chemical structures. A drawing of a cartoon zebra is pasted sideways on the page. A strip of a black-and-white photo of a person with a devil face drawn on them in red is also pasted on the page. In the top right is a drawing of an eye within colored squares that looks like it is crying lightning.

By Emily Swindell ’24

To prove
particle
exist.
claim,
annihilation
chaos

To
exist
Prove
Particle
chaos
claim
annihilation
Exist
to
Chaos
Prove
annihilation
Claim
Particle

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