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Summer Solstice 2019 Part 1

Friday, June twenty first, two 
thousand nineteen at eleven fifty 
four ante meridian eastern daylight
time finds Earth's North Pole tilted 
closest toward sun. This demarcates 

most daylight hours of the year for 
people living the northern hemisphere. 
Just shy of high noon sun (less than 
twelve hours from drafting these lines) 
nearest star in solar system reaches 
highest point in the sky.

Hence hasty intent to beat buzzer sound 
dashing off riding figurative one seahorse 
open sleigh madly awk cross cyber sea, 
aye rudder sally forth (slogging thru 
virtual flotsam and jetsam) with poetic

obeisance paid to average size ball of 
Earth, wind and fire, my out of this 
world quasi stellar benediction, since 
Earthlings traveled thru space/time 
continuum circa Stonehenge, or perhaps

bajillion years ago, when predecessors 
of present day primates (coon sitter terribly 
less a bomb bin hubble), versus twenty first 
century *****sapiens predilection for total 
mortal kombat graphically spiraling downward

zeroing (kamikaze like), analogy drawn, 
viz subjective mathematical roulette curves, 
albeit hypotrochoids and epitrochoids staining 
countless grains of sand, count them yourself, 
yielding result (somewhere very loosely

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