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Still Swinging

...After chewing shoe leather they called steak, in the Pencey cafeteria, Mal, Ackley, and I enjoyed a winter afternoon on campus, on the bus, and in a restaurant. We walked across a puffy white ......

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Categories: pencey, appreciation, brother, cancer, death,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Cost of Education

...Ossenburger, the business genius, when he graduated from college, he started a budget mortuary service. Five dollars a corpse! He was the Wal-Mart of death. Burry ‘em, burn ‘em, float ‘em do......

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Categories: pencey, business, death, education, funeral,
Form: Free verse

Holden Looks Back

...It happens when you’re debilitated, laid-up, sick; random images, memories coalesce within the unoccupied reason of your mind. Maybe you have a memory, standing on a hill, chilled, watching ......

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Categories: pencey, books, character, education, growing
Form: Free verse

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