You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens on the second podcast of the month of June 2013 and as always I hope this

podcast finds you very well again there's not much news to report so I'm going to

jump into our second story of the month.

Titled This is Why We Jump by Jacob Clifton.

Jacob is a freelance writer and critic in Austin, Texas.

Besides his long-term gig writing about TV for the website Television

Without Pity and blogging about culture and entertainment for tour.com, he can be

found online at Jacob Clifton.com. This is why we jump was written for Catherine M. Valenti.

So, without further ado, let me tell you a story.

When he will be gentled, I call him little starfish.

I can curl myself around him like an ammonite and call him little names and he will smile.

Arms and legs getting bigger every day.

A little starfish crowding me out.

It is my name for him, but only when he will be

gentle can I say. It happens less and less.

Humans came here for mining, Oberon, moon of the ice giant Uranus, of the star soul, the sun we never see. Half ice, half stone, a core 65% of Earth's moon and size wrapped in a skin of ice.

They built over the ice chopped out level on level until it was gone and they lived upon the surface

And then down again and again

Now the only bit of moon not cord or carved away sits in a glass case at the center of our Moon.

Everything else is steel and gold.

Anything too heavy to cart back to Jove Station, a city deep as she is wide.

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