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I did not blink (when I heard my name)

I did not blink (when I heard my name)

That doesn't mean I cannot. I just won't. So I just record and remember. Flitcraft was prescient

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Apr 21, 2024
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Set to ​Set to Every Kinda People, Robert Palmer (1)

(A poem. Reading time 3 minutes)

Of course, Flitcraft was right:

Things can happen in the blink of an eye,

and plankton never truly wander,

blinking, you can miss them;

Not I. Eyes open.

Today, I decided to forget about blinking:

One: who wants to miss anything?

Or someone special, or malicious,

But mostly the…

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