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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Looking
Back
Looks
Wiggling
Different
Scrubbed
World
Wiggle
Hole
Holes
Clean

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