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ideas from reading /life in the frozen state/.
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Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:35:52 -0700 |
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1 #+BEGIN_VERSE
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2 Heaven is the darkness of a moon in a mirror
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3 In whose dark glass, long-lost love refracts into a promise
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4 And our incipient sorrows witness their imminent conclusion
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5 In mere gray inches of earth.
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7 But before this framed firmament, we can merely stand and sigh
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8 And see our lives begun knotted with their own undoing
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9 Before this stygian wall, this shroud of narcissus.
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11 Yet its stillness is not our stillness,
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12 And beyond the burnished gleaming edges of its flat sky
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13 A new sun rises
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14 Gilding the vast shoreline of our memory
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15 And the dawn-fogged peaks of our unflagging aspiration.
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16 #+END_VERSE
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18 # aspire next.
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19 # towards which we steadfastly tread.
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20 # steadfast aspiration.
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