GarySoto6B

Gary Soto. Gary Soto. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. This website gives a great biography of Mr. Soto. Its a great insight into his life.

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"With their cards of Get Well, has gathered like a small cloud, like steam weeping out the window"

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"The philosopher says, the soil is man's intelligence, and if so, then we are smarter than any tweedy Prof.,"

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"A body moves under the lake, the throat is a tube of water the hands are of a child reaching for its mom. It will be hours before it rises"

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"the moon will not pull west, dragging its light under the rule of another haven. You think of a bus and the dust trailing it like a cape"

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"Because blood revolves from one lung to the next, Why think it will
After tonight?"

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"There is a window of light
A sprinkler turning
As the earth turns,
And you do not think of the hills..."

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"You can rest in the back yard under a tree.
Your hands twitch on your lap,
Not unlike the fish on a pier or the bottom
Of a boat"

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'In this dream of cotton plants.
You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds
Fall with a sigh. You take another step,
Chop, another sigh"

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"A friend and I sat watching the water on, Neither of us talking much, just warming ourselves, by hurling large rocks at the dusty ground"

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"We wanted to get out. Years froze
As we sat on the bank. Our eyes followed the water, White-tipped but dark underneath, racing out of town"

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"All through lunch Peter pinched at his crotch, And Jesús talked about his tattoos,
And I let the flies crawl my arm" -Mission Tire Factory

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“The asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about the vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city"

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“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”

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“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”

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“It appears these days I don't have much of a life because i'm stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds life inside the mind.”

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“Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”

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