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for Aaron Korkegian

Rae Armantrout

March 27, 2008

for Aaron Korkegian

Complex systems can arise from simple rules. It’s not that we want to survive, it’s that we’ve been drugged and made to act as if we do while all the while the sea breaks and rolls, painlessly, under. If we’re not copying it, we’re lonely. Is this the knowledge that demands to be passed down? Time is made from swatches of heaven and hell. If we’re not killing it, we’re hungry.

Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout is a professor of writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of several books of poetry, most recently Money Shot (2011) and Versed (2009), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Photo credit: AP Photo/Denis Poroy


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