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Ascension
He took the wings of morning
and dwells beyond the boundaries of earth.
With us though, in the wind's bright body,

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--Adam Cooper

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Adam Cooper, at some undetermined moment since coming into being, convinced himself that life is poetry and that poetry is life. He spends almost all his time seeking evidence to back up this conviction.