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Never Has She Ever Camille Gracia
Garden
Shawn Young After Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
What is a legacy? Lin sings from the screen I don’t understand what the weight of the world What I think it does to a person Do we all need to be like Atlas I carry the weight of a mantra and The weight of human sadness I realize as he sings that this is the path some take Some choose to carry the whole world on their shoulders That stranger on the bus has no idea What the weight of the world does to me They don’t know the weight of the garden I hope to plant for my sons
John Graves Award Honorable Mention
Never Has She Ever
Camille Gracia
Never has she ever Spiraled this far To the absolute depths of the ocean Never has she ever Felt a more violent urge To empty the contents of the ocean Never has she ever Pleaded to the vastness of the ocean To let her have some control Never has she ever Felt a sinking stone attached With the sole purpose of drowning her out Until She has ever
