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Michael's Universe

It starts out with a speck

a minute fleck of matter so dense

the world slides a micro-fraction

away from normal.

The empty space left behind

by dislodged internal organs –

my bowels, my heart -

gouged out by the weight of it hurtling through space

Pictures

Short stories

leaving a cosmic trail

a tingling behind my eyes

as if I’ve stared too long into the sun

and only now realize its seriousness.

How awful it is

that relentless slide

where nothing prevails against gravity

or the inexorable mass

of loneliness.

c2006 by MC Staudinger

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