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Tissue

Paper is thin and lets light through. So are maps, money and people.

3 key quotes from Tissue, by Dharker. Learn this one first: “turned into your skin” (Dharker, Tissue).

This poem in five words

Papermapsskinallthin

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The quotes

3 big quotes in this poem.

turned into your skin

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans · identity

Paper that becomes skin. Maps, receipts and records are all thin. So are we.

Paper that lets the light shine through

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans · power of nature

Thin paper lets light in. Dharker wants buildings and borders made that way too.

Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines

Dharker · Tissue · power of humans

Borders are lines on paper. The sun does not see them.

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