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<title>the same page</title>
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href="https://fontlibrary.org/face/linik-sans" />
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<header>the same page</header>
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<p>We were all finally on the same page.
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<p>There was some pushback, at first.
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People claimed to like making choices for themselves,
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even making mistakes.
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<p>We knew they were lying.
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We knew everything; we still do.
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So we knew that people, when left to their own devices,
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their own small minds,
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were scared and lonely and wanted so badly to be part of
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something that they'd hurt themselves to fit in.
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They'd literally have cut off their nose to spite their face.
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<p>We made sure they don't have to do that.
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<hr>
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<p>Today we are celebrating the last joiner.
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<p>Today we recognize that we are better with her
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and that she is better with us.
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<p>We say <em>Welcome</em> to ourselves and we are glad.
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<p>We eat a meal, all of us, together,
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in our separate bodies at our separate tables in our separate
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houses,
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but together, for we are strong together.
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We feel the food in our bellies nourishing us even as we —
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<p>But we are sick.
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One of us is ill, is vomiting on the floor.
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We are poisoned!
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<p>Our knowledge comes from the days of the war,
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when many of us were poisoned.
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We know what it feels like to be poisoned,
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and this feels like those times, but it is different.
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It must be a new one, made by some other.
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<hr>
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<p>We are scared but we comfort ourselves.
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We've been through worse, we say.
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We've just got to find which of us allowed this to happen.
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<p>We search through our minds to follow the memory of food
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service back to its source.
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We served us.
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We prepared our food.
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We chopped the ingredients.
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We chose the produce.
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We carried the plants to the central market for distribution.
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We grew the crops and harvested them and washed them
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ourselves.
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<p>There is no one.
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There is no one but us the whole way.
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<p>We don't know what to do.
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<hr>
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<p>We think about the joiner, the last joiner.
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<p>What does she know?
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She is not one of us, we don't know yet
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if she is truly one of us.
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<p>She is the only one who could have betrayed us.
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<p><em>Why did you poison us?</em>
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<p>"I didn't! I'm with you! I'm one of you!"
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<p><em>Who poisoned us?</em>
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<p>"How could I — could we — know?
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We are one!"
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<p><em>You are not one of us. You are another.</em>
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<p>"No, please understand!
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I'm you!
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I'm we!"
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<hr>
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<p>We disposed of her.
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<p>She was not one of us.
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She was another.
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She was a danger to all of us.
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<p>It hurt, getting rid of her, a little.
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She'd shared much of herself,
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and her pain was felt through us all.
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But we soothed ourselves.
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<p>We had to dispose of her.
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It's good that we did.
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We're safe again with ourselves.
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</main>
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<footer>
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<a href="index.html">return</a>
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</footer>
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<style>
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body {
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background: ivory;
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color: indigo;
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font: 24px/2 LinikSansRegular, sans-serif;
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}
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main {
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max-width: 50ch;
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padding: 2ch;
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margin: auto;
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}
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header,footer {
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text-align: right;
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2019-06-07 22:46:14 +00:00
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color: goldenrod;
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font: 16px/1 monospace;
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position: fixed;
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}
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header {
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top: 0; left: 0; right: 0;
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background: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,240,1) 40%,rgba(255,255,240,0.3));
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padding: 8px 24px 24px 24px;
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}
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footer {
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bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0;
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background: linear-gradient(rgba(255,255,240,0.3),rgba(255,255,240,1) 40%);
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padding: 24px 24px 8px 24px;
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}
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hr {
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border: unset;
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border-bottom: 3px double;
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width: 50%;
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}
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a:link {
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text-decoration: none;
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color: goldenrod;
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}
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a:visited { color: inherit; }
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a:hover { background: papayawhip; }
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</style>
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