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CONSCIOUS

This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on a page of a T.S. Eliot verse drama. The page has been scribbled over with blue and gold marker. Two images of butterflies are pasted onto the page. Select words and phrases from the original text are left uncovered by the blue and gold markers, and are instead highlighted and outlined for emphasis, forming a new poetic message against the illustrated background.

By Janie Braverman

CONSCIOUS

conscious
breathing
ordinary breathing

consider
How little I know

Only

this—

You are the one thing that matters

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