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Eleven and Two, plus Eight

Janet Kuypers, 07/15/11
derived from the 2007 poem “Seven and Seven, plus Eighteen”

maybe I’m an observer
like an astronomer
looking out into the universe
trying to understand what makes everything
everything

maybe I’m meant to be an astronomer
studying things colder than ice, far away

you know, Pluto is an aberrant ball of ice
I don’t know, I was taught it was a planet
but then they told me no,
it’s not
it’s just a ball of ice from the Kuiper Belt

but molecule by molecule,
we originate from stars

and now I know we are all linked,
our bodies formed from stardust

but outer space
is a violent place
violent explosions create the stars
and our earth has earthquakes,
avalanches, volcanoes
tsunamis, typhoons

and in all of this madness
somehow I found you
I’ve survived the thunder
and the lightning
the blizzards,
the hurricanes
and the tornadoes
I’ve lived through the drought
I’ve survived it all
I’ve even been dealt a near fatal blow
                                                             from humanity

and with you I have walked on the tops of glaciers
      crouching down from the violent winds
      looking down into the beginning of time
with you I have watched solar storms
      and the geomagnetic aberrations of the Aurora Borealis
      from near the Arctic Circle

and we’ve looked at Venus through our telescope
and I’ve watched you photograph Orion in the night sky

so with these observations,
I thee wed
because after all of my searching throughout the univserse
I’ve found what I’ve been looking for

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