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Oct 12, 2023Liked by Michael R. Chandler

I love it, man. Not the poem, but the post. The poem, too, I suppose. And it's author - the post's, not the poem's. I don't know that fucking guy, but the other guy is important to me, and I'm glad he's doing well.

I couldn't be happier for you. I mean, less sick Yoshis in the near future would do the trick, but nevertheless... I'm glad you found that place. A beach bathed in light, waiting for you as much as you were looking for it. Our experience in this world is a wild, wild thing. We know so little of it; for every how answered, another why appears. But we think by feeling, so what is there to know? Thinking by feeling, I can say with certainty that those two pictures, in some sense, are the answer to many whys.

It sounds like you're at peace. A kind of anxious, nervous peace, but a peace nonetheless. Made my day to read this. Anyway, a poem in parting? Saul Williams - Children of the Night. Not especially relevant, but never far from my mind. Something about this post made me think of the line, "Only believers in death will die." Not sure I can explain why. Not sure it matters, either.

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Thank you, friend! Honestly, it means a lot. I mean I know you’re in my corner and have been since those long ago days of playing D&D 4e together (I feel so old!), but it still means a lot. Calms the nervous energy a bit, you know?

And yes seriously no more sick Yoshis.

I listened to that poem by Saul Williams. So good. It evokes so, so many different images. But yeah these two lines just leap out to me too. “Only some will star the sky. / Only believers in death will die.”

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