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  A Story About a Whale

  

  By Bibliovore, Mount Prospect, IL

  Sam and I were going to visit the aquarium. I like to tell people zoos and aquariums are wrong because of animal cruelty, but I’m actually quite fond of them. Most of the animals are sleeping or eating or mating. I like the fact that there is some living thing in the world that can live their live...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Snowy Springtime

  

  By Bibliovore, Mount Prospect, IL

  Sullen in the snow Completely and utterly alone My body, my hands, my head hidden Something small to read Everything to write The only person who joins is silence A perfect silence That is falling snow I write I am alone I read I am hidden Forever hidden In my own silence I am com...
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  Guide > College Essays
  Summary < Experience

  

  By Bibliovore, Mount Prospect, IL

  When I begin to read (or reread) any book, I like to take a gander at the copyright page. You know, the one with the author's name and the date of publication and all that fancy information – the page that every student hates visiting to write a bibliography. I do this mostly because I'm a bibliop...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Heavy Boots

  

  By Bibliovore, Mount Prospect, IL

  I’m wearing my blue hat and it is raining The sticky spring air penetrates through the walls of my house My books are sighing with exhaustion, their spines cracked, words blurred in pools of water The eyes on my sock monkey used to look real Now they are sewn in and seem thoughtless ...
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  The Change I wish to see in the world

  

  By Bibliovore, Mount Prospect, IL

  How does one maintain his or her individuality within in the conformity required by society? The uniform that society creates and demands a person to wear with pride is not slowing its pace, as suspected. It is strengthening its hold on mankind, forcing the world to conform to preconceived notio...