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And mean while back at the ranch..., As you wish., “If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you - think twice before embracing.” ― J. Richard Gott III, “The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.” ― Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Eternal Cloudbustian Engine, J.D.M -“I see myself as a huge fiery comet - a shooting star. Everyone stops - points up and gasps "Oh look at that!", Then — whoosh and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever.
This is not the whole piece, but the excerpts I liked the most – I do that sometimes – I enjoy how oddly dislocated it feels in parts.
The last paragraph is the jewel in a strange crown.
Planetarium by Adrienne Rich
A woman in the shape of a monster
a monster in the shape of a woman
the skies are full of them
a woman ‘in the snow
among the Clocks and instruments
or measuring the ground with poles’
in her 98 years to discover
8 comets
She whom the moon ruled
like us
levitating into the night sky
riding the polished lenses
in those spaces of the mind
I am bombarded yet I stand
I have been standing all my life in the
direct path of a battery of signals
the most accurately transmitted most
untranslatable language in the universe
I am a galactic cloud so deep so invo-
luted that a light wave could take 15
years to travel through me. And has
taken. I am an instrument in the shape
of a woman trying to translate pulsations
into images for the relief of the body
and the reconstruction of the mind.
Esme's Cloud 
Riders on the storm, into this cloud we’re born? H ❤
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Like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan.
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Dislocated, and yet somehow strangely coherent.
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It is isn’t it? I like weird word arrangements that break the rules. Not all the time, but occasionally for sure.
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A woman in the snow is cold, Sonmi.
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Yes. She is.
-s.u.t.C
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Your so astonishing , dear Sonmi , so high in the blue …I love you , megxxx
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Oh how lovely of you, meg, you are a sweetheart, thank you, but I haven’t really done anything here, Adrienne Rich deserves all the praise! Apart from the tags. I am Queen of the tags. Hmm…that sounds like an awful moniker, so I shan’t be Queen of the tags after all methinks – laughs and gives meg a hug.
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