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The absent minded dreamer.Beneath the Acid Sky
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An Arizona NightThe stars hover silently overhead and a coyote howls from somewhere off in the distance. Another coyote howls back and the yipping calls of three young pups who decide to join in make me smile.An Arizona Night
“Hey Nitka?”
I call out into the night, sitting up to look through the red and orange fire at the girl prodding it with a burnt stick. Even in the firelight she looks like little more than a shadow. Or a ghost.
“Can’t sleep? You’re not afraid of some lonesome dogs are you?”
She asks, looking up at me with a raised eyebrow and a mischievous smirk.
“Yes. A
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Tandem PoemDoes the dream die today? It dies gladly Do the children shout hooray? And shout their praises madly And what will come from the fray? Quetzalcoatl's frightened medleyTandem Poem
Can you hear the moon's wolves calling? For a life akashic lost Now feel the world falling Yet none shall pay the final cost And gateways open to all things appalling Heretic fountains sprout across
Dreams are cast in die Forged in frigid fire All fair kings learn to lie In circumstances dire Watch these lines of lives tie To a frantic jangled lyre
Li
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Beneath the Acid SkyThe sky hangs low above our heads. It's more like a tarp, really. A white membrane suspended above a tiny, artificial planet. Structural formulas of various acids pattern the sky. Acetic acid. Hydrochloric acid. By the time you're five years old you know every pattern by heart.Beneath the Acid Sky
"Phosphoric acid. Boric acid."
I whisper to myself, laying on the vast expanse of grass. Soft folds ripple across the sky. Absently I scratch at the gravity generator clamped around my right upper arm. This planet is so small compared to Earth, at least that's what people tell me. There isn't much gravity, so the sky hangs low enough so that i
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A Memo For TimeTell me, who are you? The stony judge and wild creature Who bends for no being And answers to no will but your own?A Memo For Time
With the force of time you shape our lives Without cruel judgement. Without a biased eye. And still we hate you for it Because in your fairness we see you brutal.
Friends and enemies do not exist. Lovers and haters are the same. All the world that is. You rule it all. Only because you can.
So we claim to know you better. To know your mind, If it exists, To know your spirit Despite the fact we cannot to
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