11twelve15

Life comes crashing

 candy spun sails

attempt to navigate treacherous straits.

the captain and

I

 carefully consider the terms of surrender

no fatal wounds, certainly nothing visible in this color spectrum

 beaten down by a thousand paper cuts,

the newspaper said it was a case of attrition.

Nothing to see here, move along.

life never misses a beat, does it?

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Ali baba had a bauble, a bully bauble baba bought.

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Bester solved the time differential

good enough for me anyway

a zillion pasts and futures

existing simultaneously like a big fat roman candle in the quantum tunnel

they brush each other aside

barely touching 

with an occasional

faint glimpse of recognition

 mostly quiet sleep

Erwin's kitty cat

slips through the eye of the mountain
which may not even exist

the physicists said it was bound to happen
in an infinite world or all probability
anyway
alive and dead at the same time

would close her eyes but she's of afraid of waking up again