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“I am in a desert place in my life I had this dream the other night: Comfort came to me in two forms Dark and Light Remembrance and Anticipation There was a sweet taste, Not on my tongue but in my heart And a soft touch soothing But sublime My mind saw this scene from two angles Left and Right I perceived a choice between two women One I have known before The other I would know I was standing My back to a wall, facing an open room From my left Dark approached me She put her face to my face And her body right up against my body As we sank to the floor kissing It was odd—but familiar. From my right came Light (Dark had already gone) Light put her face to my face And her body against my body As we sank to the floor kissing And it was right Each consuming the other.” ------------------------------------------- Dark is a woman I knew—years ago Light is a woman I had yet to know Dark needs no light, for her countenance seen Dark is lit up by my fond memory To see Light I’d need hope, and it came in a vision It took a great while, retrospect acquisition: Committed recall to the blank white of paper Returned to my eyes again, many years later Gave chance to bestow, my mind reels at the means The future made known to the man, it would seem No notes from the future, squeezed backward through time Piggybacked upon muons*, the old paradigm It came by cigar with some gulps o’ the brandy Wouldn’t suffer invention, no technology handy Through membrane not diodes, transistors or chips Premonition the cargo, time-transient ships Time seeps and flips back--bits of data it brings Knowledge bestowed in ethereal** dreams The upshot of this story? Light’s my destiny And I’m happy to say that her name is Tammy. *The time traveling muon **extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world
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