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Perfect Wave Pools

By Jack Lapin
issue 12

So many people crowded into one wave pool.

All together in one container,

Yet in separate groups, hardly mingling with others.

The designers did their best to replicate nature,

But only to an extent.

Waves for five minutes, rest for five minutes,

Pool
Summer
Water

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Reborn

By Laurel Foderberg
issue 12

For months, I’ve been waiting for this day. Not only is it the first day of

summer, but it’s also the day I will get to see some of my favorite bands. I

imagined May thirty-first a million different ways, and hoped most for a nice,

Summer
music
Rebirth

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