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Hello Is the Longest Goodbye

Let’s not ask of death, no matter how near or far death has nothing to say, or not talk of life only the living of it. Hove to anywhere, shove off from any place, there is no map to an answer, besides, each answer is an anchor. The longest goodbye is hello. An eagle soars because it can, crickets will rub their legs, hermit crabs change shells outgrow themselves until trapped. Mountains of climbers raise the sea level. Over dead worlds suns also rise. A beating heart is only a question. A twitch of an eye signals forever.

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Date: 10/15/2020 10:20:00 AM
love this ... that first hello too is a slap on the derriere as you're hung upside down! What an apt welcome to life! :)
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Eric Ashford
Date: 10/15/2020 11:25:00 AM
Thanks for the comment Susan, yes that first slap on the rear should warn us of more to come!

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