Weeks from graduating, Yale undergraduate Michele Dufault toiled late at night inside a machine shop in a chemistry lab, investigating the possible use of liquid helium for detecting dark matter particles. Dufault, 22, was killed when her hair became caught in the lathe, whose rotating axis is used to hold materials like wood or metal being shaped. She died from accidental asphyxiation by neck compression. As when a star dies,. But the light it made.

A haiku in regards to studenthood. To be a student today. Is to be a professional. Is to be a student. Figuring out what went wrong. One arm lost to a shark-. Who never knew his father-. America is a Cinderella story. America has God on its side. I will run on the platform. It, so can I-. It, so can I-.

A woman walks down the road with her trembling hands shielding her eyes. Something was on fire behind me. And i was thinking of a face. When i saw a mouse in the dark. Just sitting in my path as a stone. Small pretty mouse, creamy grey. I bent toward it with my camera. Knowing the flash would scare. It away but i did it anyway. About mice and how they are. Afraid of bright flashes of light. In the dark with a fire behind me. I took pictures of things that would.

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Confetti and corned beef hash. Tabletops are rolling in curry. At the cost of coast to coast travel? Can you trust me. Acidic strawberries are eroding at the corners of a ghost. The orange cats are the worst. They do it even when you are looking. Remember the good old days when. You would throw a quarter in a mechanical. Horse to take a magical journey? Looks like the joker.