Supernatural s5 Codas
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In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to Ifrom Adrienne Rich's "In Those Years"
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- Part 1 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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There are more things in heaven
and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophyfrom Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.from T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding
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- Part 3 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.from Nicanor Parra's "Chronos"
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- Part 4 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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She might be an everyday sort of brave,
And possess no want or need to be saved,
Examined, and pitied by the likes of mefrom Sherman Alexie's "Scarlet"
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- Part 5 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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It was not meant to last forever in the real world.
But why admit that, when you can go on
doing what you always dofrom Louise Glück's "Witchgrass"
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- Part 6 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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And along a long street's
majestic emptiness under the moon:one hand on the angel's shoulder, one
feeling the air before him,
eyes open but fixed . . .from Denise Levertov's "St. Peter and the Angel"
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- Part 7 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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The Thing Is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.from Ellen Bass's "The Thing Is"
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- Part 8 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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the wave of a life darker than my
life before me sped, and I,
larger than I was, grown dark as
the shoreless depth,
arose from myself, shaking the last
light of the sun
from me.from Robert Duncan's "Achilles' Song"
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- Part 9 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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they give me pain, so I live with pain,
they give me hate, so I live with my hate,
they have changed me, and I am not the same manfrom Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Who Understands Me But Me"
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- Part 10 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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and i did unforgivable things
and you perfected a certain cruelty
and when the end came screaming at us we fed it fresh, new years
our best years,
our prime of life yearsfrom Frank Hughes's "An Act of Procreation"
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- Part 11 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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O' God it's wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so muchfrom Frank O'Hara's "Steps"
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- Part 12 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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The stain of love
Is upon the world.from William Carlos Williams's "A Love Song"
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- Part 13 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, Eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has an Easier size.from Emily Dickinson's "I measure every Grief I meet (561)"
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- Part 14 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,--so with his memory they brim!
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Time Does Not Bring Relief"
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- Part 15 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.from David Whyte's "Self Portrait"
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- Part 16 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.from Sonia Sanchez's "Ballad"
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- Part 17 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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I chose to do something with my life
that I knew I could fail at.
I spent my whole life walking
and hid such colorful wings.from Brian Tromboli's "Things my Son Should Know After I've Died"
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- Part 18 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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If I ever become a rich man,
Or if ever I grow to be old,
I will build a house with deep thatch
To shelter me from the cold,
And there shall the Sussex songs be sung
And the story of Sussex told.from Hilaire Belloc's "The South Country"
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- Part 19 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?from W.B. Yeats's "Easter 1916"
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- Part 20 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security,And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promisesfrom Veronica Shoffstall's "After a While"
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- Part 21 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my shoes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.from W.H. Auden's "O Tell Me The Truth About Love"
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- Part 22 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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We two form a multitude
from Ovid's Metamorphoses
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- Part 23 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?from e.e. cumming's "you said Is"
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- Part 24 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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There has been a key
for every lock you've picked
& when you picked the locks
the keys lost all their weight.from Kevin A. González's "Skin"
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- Part 25 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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Here is your cross,
Your nails and your hill;
And here is your love,
That lists where it will.from Leonard Cohen's "Here It Is"
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- Part 26 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.from William Ernest Henley's "Invictus"
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- Part 27 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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What use are books to me
When in you it is possible to read
The Gospel of my life on earth
And still beyond, of things to come?from Charles Simic's "My Shoes"
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- Part 28 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.from Jack Gilbert's "Failing and Flying"
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- Part 29 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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Well--
all things turn bitter in the end
whether you choose the right or
the left wayand--
dreams are not a bad thing.from William Carlos William's "LIBERTAD! IGUALDAD! FRATERNIDAD!" (scroll down to read)
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- Part 30 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisionsfrom T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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- Part 31 of Supernatural s5 Codas
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