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Opposite Day

It's Opposite Game day says JayJay to on-screen enthusiastic friends. I have no adult time or patience to see or hear right as not not opposition wrong Right, like left, only appositionally spaced like I have timeless time for western this nor eastern that. If God or Goddess is inside everywhere with us on our voyage stuckness outside nowhere, both here and there then yet not just there nor merely here. Just as the opposite of empty secular time is no sacred time and, yes, eternal timelessness I wonder why whitened black appears greyscale to daytime me while blackened white feels ultra-violet bright at night. Something could not be right about left experience of love as life inexperienced as dusty death. All Earth feels full with resonant music and sky voided silent empty resilience brittle as a frozen drum without a ballistic stick of thunder opposing lightning It might be true opposites of dance are static non-moments for sterile decay stagnant non-being remaining lifeless, abandoned by courageous hope to dance once more And yet I wonder why opposite of no yes says "not yet" while tension between yes no waits for a double-binding second "no" to also produce relentless ambiguity of not not yet. The opposite of yet what and whom and why could past become if we could just get not not yet as a sure bet for outside climate health and not inside bitter weathered pathology? From left against right day recovering night not not wrong silence predicting not not adventurous theme songs oppositionally inappropriate for Jay Jay's dancing apposition daze.

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