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Too Much Sleep Is Bad

I don't have a chronic cough.
Cats don't drool over me.
You can't listen to the change that's being monitored.
You can only participate in your life-

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jump stone hand leaf shadow sun …

Robert Duncan

The dive could come who was its fledgling first …

Parker Tyler

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Peter Davison

Sing her no song …

Grace Baer Hollowell

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Benjamin Gilbert Brooks

From the dark span that saw his own span break, …

William Childress

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Walter Kidd

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Dorianne Laux

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