NO OFFENSE TAKEN
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  SHORT FILM OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROJECTED ON GREEN BRICKS                                                                     (2007)
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    WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT HOW DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY                                                   CAN GIVE YOU MEMORY LOSS
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                          BLANK PAGES IN A CHILDHOOD SCRAPBOOK
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          DAILY MENTAL EXERCISE PRESCRIBED BY WELLNESS EXPERT
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                                                 THE FOG OF LOST SOULS
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             WHEN I LEARNED MY SIGNATURE COULD BE GRAFFITTI
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                                                      GENESIS 7:24-8:1¹
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   PLASTIC COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL FOR FIELD DAY PARTICIPATION
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                                 WHY I HAVEN’T LEFT MY BED YET TODAY
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                                     NOAH IF YOU READ THIS I’M SORRY
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                          YELLOW ONION ROTTING BEHIND MY EYES

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1.The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days. But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. (NIV)

BENNETT RINE is a writer from New Orleans currently residing in Los Angeles. Their work can be found in Palaver Arts Magazine and Fruitslice.