Tag: struggles
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1,000 miles: step 67- the tuition monster
Some of us believe in monsters, hiding under beds. Quite harmless manifestations of childhood fears. I know a more hated, detrimental monster. The Tuition Monster was born of grown up children’s financial nightmares. Escaping this monster isn’t easy; it comes with the price of education. I know not all people are living under this monster’s shadows. But some of us…
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city sights
we keep building highways between our homes, rearranging entrances and exits. the noise of those honking machines are getting to my head. I picture cars going through the motions of ant armies, ants carrying on their back automatic people, who ask “how are you?” and move on the automatic people are blind they can’t see:…
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1,000 miles: step 19
From poet Chad Anderson’s “Like Math”: And I said, “Words, what are words when I love you like math?” And she said, “Like math, is that how you think you love me? You love me like….” I said, “I love you like math, Infinite and exact…” … Most days, the word hate isn’t in my…
Claudia Rojas 