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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
Surface
Like
Air
Meet
Courage
Awe
Doesn
Breaking
Fish
Around
Fishes
Anything
Mouths
Mean

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