& even when we said we were alone there was [ ] noise on the radio & there was [ ] noise in the car & there was [ ] noise all over the internet & there was [ ] noise in the atmosphere & there was [ ] noise trapped in the system & there was [ ] noise in the economy & [ ] noise was the economy & there was [ ] noise on the train & there was [ ] noise on the road & there was [ ] noise at the board meeting & there was [ ] noise on the field & there was [ ] noise on the kitchen counter & [ ] noise in the cutlery drawer & there was [ ] noise at the hospital where there was [ ] noise in the blood & there was [ ] noise in the water supply & there was [ ] noise in the ocean & there was [ ] noise eating the ice caps & the polar bears were drowning because of it & washed up on the beaches then was a morbid & off-white [ ] noise & there was [ ] noise in the street & there was [ ] noise in the ozone a whole hole's worth of [ ] noise just counting down the days & there was [ ] noise in the photos of us because [ ] noise was on the lens & there was [ ] noise on the brain scan & there was [ ] noise during the exam where there was [ ] noise scratched into the desk & there was [ ] noise in the texts & there was [ ] noise in the census & there was [ ] noise in the law & there was [ ] noise on Friday at the cinema & there was [ ] noise at the seminar & there was [ ] noise at the peace talks & there was [ ] noise in the rent & there was [ ] noise on the wellness podcast & there was [ ] noise in the obituary & there were little [ ] noise cookies remaining even after carefully choosing reject all & there was [ ] noise in the inquest & there was [ ] noise in the commission & there was [ ] noise in the system you hear because [ ] noise was the system & too [ ] noise was reform & there was [ ] noise in the wounding & there was [ ] noise in the wording of the apology the [ ] noisiness of which made entirely void the apology & there was [ ] noise in the diversity statement & there was [ ] noise in the group chat & there was [ ] noise in the joke of it all, there was [ ] noise in the delivery & there was [ ] noise in the returns process & in the practice & in the prayer & it was there in the room with us still even when we said we were alone even when we swore that we could not hear it
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At the beginning of this year, I decided to memorize a poem. It's pretty long, and I made some progress on it, but didn't quite make it through the whole thing. I'm glad I took the time on it. Maybe I'll come back to it again, see what more I can do. Maybe not.
I'm thinking about choosing another poem for next year. Maybe to memorize, maybe not. I found this one. Not to memorize, just to read. And to listen.
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