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Black text on a white background. Title: "Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. "Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as…

Two-Headed Calf Poem by Laura Gilpin

Laura Gilpin's poem "Two-Headed Calf" as a plain text screenshot, the kind of English-class poem Xennials met in school and now share on Tumblr.

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Black text on a white background. Title: "Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. "Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as…

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Screenshot of a poem titled "Good Bones" by Maggie Smith, in black serif text on a white background. The poem is about hiding the world's terrors from your children, comparing life to a bad house a realtor calls beautiful because it has good bones. A light gray band across a dark gray background holds centered black text: "The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves." Two-panel comic. Left panel, headed "Product Features", shows an elaborate gray multi-level cat tree with perches, platforms and a hammock. Right panel, headed "User Needs", shows a cat peeking out of a plain open cardboard box. Credit in corner: "_yes_but". Collage-style postcard with a yellow border. A small child in a red bandana screams with an open mouth at a shaggy brown pony or horse, whose mouth is also open, near a terracotta water tub. Pasted captions read "Life is good." and "Everyone just overreacts." Handwritten in the corner: "Even me." Top text reads: "Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars." Below, a curly-haired woman in a gray flight jumpsuit with a shoulder patch holds an orange tabby cat in a grimy industrial spaceship corridor. Hand-painted ink and watercolor illustration of a green bullfrog against a black background. A speech bubble reads: "YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS ABYSSAL DARKNESS. I AM HERE, AND WE SHALL FACE THE CHASM AS BROTHERS." A small white signature sits in the lower left corner.

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