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i come for <<hovertip "there are simpler \nthings than love \n\nlooking is">><</hovertip>>a simple description of the earth.
<<hovertip "you get over your suffering\nby securing a vantage point:\n\nwhen you lift the lid \nof a base thing (like love) \ndon't be surprised">><</hovertip>> <<hovertip "only a guess">><</hovertip>>
i didn't come<<hovertip "if we can't see a real thing \nwe imagine it">><</hovertip>> here to be told anything.<<hovertip "trying to explain the loss of love\nis the kind of work we make atoms do\n\nit's what we expect of hadron colliders ">><</hovertip>> i came to upset the water.
there is nothing <<hovertip "near the speed that light goes">><</hovertip>><<hovertip "slowly">><</hovertip>>more human<<hovertip "like being \na surveyor \nwho depresses \na patch \nof flowers \nunder his \nfoot \nfor purchase">><</hovertip>> than to make something in your image. we do it<<hovertip "we are violent \n even when we mean not to be. \nor i am">><</hovertip>> a million times a day:
see our faces in the clouds, render blueberry muffins from wildness, bestow a phone call, carve a<<hovertip "also grew a mane.\nyou would not call a mane cowardly \nwould you?">><</hovertip>> statue, laugh at a <<hovertip "over time the promise \nof the lion grew—\n\nthe shoulders \nbigger than the ways\nto show love\n\n—grew a hunger \nto match its teeth">><</hovertip>><<hovertip "you must excuse me">><</hovertip>>half-hearted joke, as if to observe our language becoming theirs.
<<hovertip "i crouch. \nlow—\nto the water.\n\nwhat have i \nimagined \nthere? \n\ni am too scared \nto drink">><</hovertip>>
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