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Oct 31: This Is Not The End

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p433 & 497.

(This image is mine. Cornfield, 2018. Yardley, PA)

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Oct 30: Away

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p329.

(This image is mine. Ferris Wheel, 2012. Ocean City, NJ.)

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Oct 29: Dear Life.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p202.

(This image is mine. Franklin Parker Preserve, 2015. Chatsworth, NJ.)

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Oct 28: How To Be a Creator

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p492.

(This is my image: Firework, July 4th, 2015. Mt. Holly, NJ.)

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Oct 27: Translate

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. Orbit: New York, 2014. Digital, p196.

Image sourced from Google images.

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Oct 26: delightful fruits

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p120.

Image sourced from NSW Department of Primary Industries. Artist: Margaret Senior.

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Oct 25: Eventually we do

I thought this was what happened to all mothers as their sons grew up. / a human might be light / mass / a wide variety of dangers / Everyone was meant to forget / Eventually, we do

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p255.

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Oct 24: I Just Had to Ask

I want I want I want / I want to be a part of this / I closed my eyes / and waited / and before I knew it / I was learning all the time.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p496.

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Oct 23: being human

I was calm / I shot a man / a pity, the blood on the glass. / I was not scared. / Still, I felt / a thin coil of exhaustion / winding through my chest.

Source Text:

Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p315.

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Oct 22: Behind You

You remember the door open / feeling like you didn’t have any option but to survive it / I said “Don’t worry, / I'll be right behind you.”

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p243.

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Oct 21: Brighten

I have other lives to brighten / far away from the ocean.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p116.

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Day 20: The Truth Is

I know I said I wasn’t scared. / I lied.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p90.

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Oct 19: Who Knows

She came to me / terrified she called for me / me, like I know suddenly / like I’ve ever known.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p109.

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Oct 18: Where to Begin

I didn’t know where to begin. / I wanted to be obedient / I was the one who asked for hurt / because it would mean I’d been honest. / Look at me / Don’t you like it / I’m not dangerous / I can’t help the way things are.

Source Text: Grant, Mira. Parasite. New York: Orbit, 2014. Digital, p295.

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Oct 17: Grief