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Reading Comprehension Passage B
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercury's!
Insignia on our sneakers,
We outmaneuvered to footwork
Of bad angels. Nothing but a hot
Swish of strings like silk
Ten feet out. In the roundhouse
Labyrinth our bodies
Created, we could almost
Last forever, poised in midair
Like storybook sea monsters.
A high note hung there
A long second. Off
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youth ending
anxious movement
O time stopping
O imaginative strategy