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Blind Contour: Night
Sky, number one.

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Tonight the heavens
murmur their promise:

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a bright and distant violence.

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And you've driven
a switchback road

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out past jagged small
mountains that border west

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this small and jagged
town where your heart's

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consecutive failures have
been as carefully coded

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as the codex of stars that
fold in, out, in, out,

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and tucked away in
your breast pocket.

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Because tonight,
you hate yourself

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for being lonely, recline
against hood and windshield

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dark and parked and gazing,
because this is all you know.

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Because you misbelieve.

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Because you mistake yourself
for ancient: vision unveiled

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by saguaros yearning skyward,
arms beckoning the gauzy ribbon

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of dust and stars until
the headlights fade

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from your eyes'
edges, but you're

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still left dark and wandering.

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Apogee begins to focus.

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Betelgeuse, Rigel,
arm and leg of Orion--

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his belt, those diamond seams...

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and you forget why it
is he stalks the skies.

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Draw your eyes back.

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See the night for all her breath
when coyotes ring their pale

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and petty argument, and
catch now, peripherally,

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a streaking light, an acute
and failing angle earthward--

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all atmosphere and friction,
a brilliant production.

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A meteor, you know, milliseconds
away from smoldering -ite.

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And because it may
amount to nothing--

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a quintessence of dust--

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cast your well-worn wish.

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