GRUNION
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E L A U G H G A P THE
GAP
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BY CAROLINE SMITH
BECKONS
needed a community. Something
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Robert Frost said, “Two roads life easier. The gap will make you more
to relate to other people with. diverged in a wood, and I took the one efficient.” Something spatial, concrete, and less traveled by,
perpetual.
Then I found the gap.
difference.”
Supposedly, if you are walking
But of course the gap is a
And that has made all the threat. If I keep using the gap, I might start considering other shortcuts.
I say, “Two paths diverged in Going through the USU instead of
to campus from the north, you will pass a college campus, and I took the one taking the stretch of stairs. Cutting the Go Beach sign and make a sharp that seems slightly shorter, and that across the grass. Traipsing through a left into the open path ahead of you. A has made small the difference.” concrete walking path that takes you
planter of succulents. What will I do
The gap is an excellent when the escalator stops working
past the USU and up the escalators. It conversation starter. “My mind is again? Will I be discouraged to is wide and welcomes you.
under the control of the gap and I continue the rest of the day? Or will I
But I do not embrace the open cannot escape.” --Melanie Perez
occupy myself by trying to find another
path, I make an oblique for the gap. In “I just always gravitate towards the shortcut? Will I keep thinking about between a column and a wall. Daily gap. Like I can’t not walk through it… I shortcuts until I am late for class? 49er box and a railing.
feel like I’m neglecting that little bit of The gap is the sun, and I am Icarus,
The gap. The allure of a space if I don’t walk through it.” - Lucy destined to fly too close and have my
shortcut. The illusion of free choice. Dallavo What is its purpose but to tempt.
wings melt away. The gap beckons, “Walk
But I love the gap. I praise the
The snake in the garden of Eden, through, walk through. There is gap. I join the chorus of Long Beach whispering in the student’s ear to nothing holding you back. You can slip students that worship the gap. All of forsake convention. You see it ahead through like water in a gutter, like a us, business and art majors, freshman of you. Do you go through the main bubble in the wind, like a child on a slip and seniors, local and international, we walkway, or take the adventurous n’ slide. You will be a ghost, passing are united by our love and momentary route?
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through a wall. The gap will make your indulgence in the one and only gap.
