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Ink Bottle

by Robert Sund

Robert Sund

1

Somewhere
inside this ink bottle
there is a starry sky!

2

Don't keep the lid on
your ink bottle
too long.

Seattle, late 1960s




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One starts an action simply because one must do something

• T. S. Eliot



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