playing with a fly, I wiggle a finger and it lands on the tip of the pen, preens its wings, already glossy in the morning sun no brain there though it’s showing a unique bravery I mean, could you tell the difference between one of life’s emissaries and a dumb insect? so I lean closer to read its lips but it flies over, lands on doggie poop, dancing from one nugget to the next, playing with its friends if that was a secret message from the universe I’ll pass and wait fo

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I wake up and ask my Google Nest to kickstart the day with news which lately sounds like the cruelest weather forecast with tornadoes and typhoons reaping death, destruction and rage home and abroad any word of a sunny outlook is as rare as a blue moon or an eclipse of two pieces of good news when I reach a proper misery I switch to music and instantly the rain stops, winds calm and I become as airborne as these old wings will allow and lift straight out of bed so why d