and be warm
the poem is very comforting, its the nostalgia of a southern childhood when things were still simple (as someone from knoxville)
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- Nov 2022
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poets.org poets.org
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mountains
the smokeys feel like home
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homemade ice-cream
so many of these moments I recognize from my own childhood, homemade ice-cream among them. whether it be at home with my brother making it in Ziplock bags, or it being made for us in an rv park up in Pidgeon forge by a friends grandfather.
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you can eat fresh corn
my favorite type of corn is a peaches and cream corn from a specific farmer in olvier springs
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- Aug 2022
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apex-magazine.com apex-magazine.com
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to do something really dumb, then dove beneath a reading desk and pulled his dark hoodie over his head.
is he trying to spend the night at the library?
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high school senior photo printed in the Ulysses Gazette, grainy and oversized, and you spend the next five years thinking: if only I’d given her the right book.
I think that the librarian feels responsible for what happend to a previous kid looking for escapism. It alludes to the student committing suicide, and the librarian feeling like they could have prevented it if they gave the kid a book that would distract them, or teach them lessons
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kids who skip school to play League of Legends on our computers or skulk in the graphic novel
the kids burying themselves in fantasy can stay ;)
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Oh honey, not another one, they said. I turned back to my stack of DVDs, unsmiling, thinking things like what do you know about it and this one is different and oh shit.
seems like this librarian has a tendency to sorta mentaly 'adopt' the kids looking for escapism
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They don’t need me. And you really can’t do anything for the people who only read Award-Winning Literature, who wear elbow patches and equate the popularity of Twilight with the death of the American intellect; their hearts are too closed-up for the new or secret or undiscovered.
this librarian enjoys helping people explore the library and find something new, strange, obscure. make it feel exciting to browse, not just read
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In the end, the Runaway Prince leaves Medieval Adventureland and closes the portal behind him before returning home to his family. It was supposed to be a happy ending. Which kind of tells you all you need to know about this kid’s life, doesn’t it?
he wants to escape. this book was escapism to him and when the protag decides to go home at the end it ruins the illusion of running away to a magical land.
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$4.75.
19 days overdue. is he a slow reader or did he just read it over and over again?
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