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361 Five Glimpses of Gratitude (Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sharon Olds, Henry David Thoreau, WS Merwin)

The History of Literature

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Ain't I Lucky I Can Still Breathe?

The last couple of lines in this poem are about gratitude. It's a person saying, i am grateful for this simple act. Ain't i lucky i can still breathe? Well, that has no life to it,. That's a platitude. Not the act of breathing, hact of breathing inm angelo.

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