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EXCERPT from Emily Pettit's BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THIS IDEA ABOUT BEING AFRAID OF SOMETHING:

                AN AGREEMENT REQUIRES 
                AN OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE

                I came here to get you excited. 
                We have an accidental stare-down. 
                No bees, no money. No one says this. 
                I am so frightening. No one is impressed. 
                It's all, a duck's quack doesn't echo
                and no one knows why. You think
                you are whispering when you are not. 
                We are experts at distributing distorted 
                information. This is how it might feel,
                take hold of something between
                you finger and your thumb and twist it
                sharply. Make a slight adjustment.
                to arrive, a bar, a partition, a stick.
                I am hitting rocks with a stick. 
                What do you believe to be important
                points of convergence? Vegetables.
                Electricity. The extremely challenging
                sky. To show adoration with the eyes.
                To say something necessary. I avoid
                my eyes. I think I mean it. 


Clocking in at 29 pages, incredible artwork by Bianca Stone accompanies individual poems throughout Because You Can Have This Idea About Being Afraid Of Something. Check it out! 

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