Dark Matter
Meeting Monsters
I did used to skip when I was a kid.
I'm sure I did.
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Skipping is not the same as running.
You can be running away from,
or to stay ahead of. But skipping
is just carefree.
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I met monsters. They stood abruptly in my path;
showed me to watch where I was skipping,
that it was maybe a better idea
to avoid skipping altogether.
It just encouraged a carefree sort of attitude
and that was certainly not advisable.
Oh no, not at all.
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First published by Dreich Noises from the Isle
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Why, is a question
I've never found the answer to.
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We do not even know why the galaxies
are flying apart instead of collapsing
down gravity wells.
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My grandfather, who died in the time I was conceived,
he was a farmer, a wheelwright, a tailor,
could mend shoes.
He was a god-fearing, hard-fisted man.
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I am his grandson.
Show me the equation for that.
Tell me, even, how many blackboards you would need.
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First published by Bluepper
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