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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Around
Fish
Anything
Fishes
Mean
Mouths
Like
Surface
Air
Meet
Courage
Awe
Doesn
Breaking

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