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The universe has already written the poem

you were planning on writing,

and this is why you can do nothing but point at the flock of

starlings whose bodies rise and fall in inherited choreography swarming the sky in a sweeping curtain that for one

blistering moment forms the unmistakable shape of a giant bird flapping against the sky.

It is why your mouth forms an, oh, that is not a gasp, but rather the beginning of oh of course as in of course the heart of a blue whale is as

as large as a house with chambers tall enough to fit a person standing.

Of course, a fig is only possible when a lady wasp lays her eggs inside a flower, dies, and decomposes the fruit evidence of her transformation

sometimes. The poem is so bright.

Your silly language will not stick to it.

Sometimes the poem is so true.

Nobody will believe you.

I am a bird made of birds. My blue heart a house you can stand up

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