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"Aerial Ballet."

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"I am not done with my falling.

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I turn in the air
like a fish who

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realizes he is a fish somehow in
the middle of a tragic miracle.

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Do you wish to know
about the tiny stars?

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Very well, I will tell
you about the tiny stars.

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I am a tiny star.

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My fingers burn in the air,
leaving a vapor trail that

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might be mistaken for a jet.

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I am not done with my falling.

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I turn in the air like
a rock that I've always

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dreamed of being a great
weightless contradiction.

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New York at dusk is a cluster
of tiny, grounded stars.

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And as I burn
towards their heart,

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a great peace lightens my bones.

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I am not done with my falling.

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I turn in the air like a
snake dreaming off a bad meal.

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I am dropped from a
bird beneath a canopy

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of stars, which is like the
campfires I'd fall towards,

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who will make who knows what
out of this awkward story.

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I am not done with my falling.

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I am following my
blood, which has

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decided to court the
streets of New York

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in its own strange fashion.

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I see the moon, a
pale specter of a star

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softly appear like
smoke before a fire.

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And as I plunge,
the streets forever

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curl away like cellophane
beneath a match."

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