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they are gone and i am old.
it must take a lot of commitment and rage to pick all the butterflies from my hair every evening, and morning. 'cause i've been sleeping all the time, and i haven't been dreaming of much except gypsy moths and gypsies.
i just need to free myself, be naked and free. longing and free. lining myself up with the floorboards.
the space between the bedroom and the fields is none.
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So Long, I Must Be Going
Washington - The American space agency Nasa has lost contact with the 9-year-old Prometheus I space probe to Alpha Centauri, officials have announced. Prometheus was the first to pass through the Oort cloud and send to Earth close-up images of comets and proto-comets found there, on its way to our nearest neighboring star system. Catastrophic hardware failure is suspected, perhaps as the result of collision with space debris.
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As it turns out, the galaxy is teeming with intelligence, and I found it. Or it found me. Wait, let me back up and start over. I'm new at all this story telling stuff. Never had to do it before.
I'm a deep-sp
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you've been gone finding
you come back hailing smoke
and raining moss, hair unwilling
and a little crazed -
you are rifling through all the impossible questions
making philosophy professors chairs creak -
i can almost hear the pages
slither past.
you've been gone finding
yourself.
all the
chalk-tongued chatterers
telling us This is how the world works
are laying thick
and clock sure -
you swipe at this wildly
you are saying
with the life in your eyes,
study,
study with me:
the raining
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About 20 years ago, I learned to fly, and a friend asked me "Aren't you afraid of crashing and dying?". I have tried to put my answer into a six word story.
About 20 years ago, I learned to fly, and a friend asked me "Aren't you afraid of crashing and dying?". I have tried to put my answer into a six word story.
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a profound, emotional piece! your wording makes it rather... thought-provoking 
lovely work 
lovely work