(x = space)

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Closest Encounter

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I should speak

To other causes

Though I’d say

Enough of us

Is cause enough

So I should delegate

Myself for planet Earth

This way

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Breath

Circulation

Stretching

Into life

And all this matters

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Yes, George Floyd matters

And all Black people

And all the other colors,

Too

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Partial or whole

We make a difference

Half of us in offices

It takes a moment to get used to

I have to say

While I push through

Suburban limitations

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White bread

White meat

Tame salad

With acceptable spices

For dressing

Butter

Salt and pepper

I must change

And I have changed

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The world is larger

And there are gems

Implanted and arising

From the hillsides

And the waters

The desert plains

And in the shapes of clouds

We guess the shapes

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So much more

You should have it

You should have it

With me

And all of us together

See

(hear

oyez),

I think we used to think

In our old movies

That when they land from outer space

To plant their flying structures

(now landing)

On our greens

That we would united at last

In friendship

Or to meet a foe

Depending on the form of great power

We encounter

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But these have been landing

For centuries

Our ancient art

And all our docs

(documents and documentaries)

Say so

And we have joined

No better

Than before

Than yesterday

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So we’ll have to do this on our own

Come together

Right now

Over me

Over you

Over a past’s destruction

And future interest

In rebuilding

Everyone

Who has a chance

And everyone

Should have a chance

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Then they change

On meeting us

Once they have

The official,

Planetwide encounter

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Someone’s knockin’ at the door

Let’em in

Let us out

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C L Couch

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“Come Together,” John Lennon

“Let‘em In,” Paul McCartney

The Day the Earth Stood Still, movie from 1951 (remade in 2008), based on a 1940 science-fiction story

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(image by) Jiuguang Wang from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States – Gort on display at the Robot Hall of Fame, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27507986

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