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Date Posted: 05:52:15 12/05/99 Sun
Author: lucy blue
Subject: Re: Zoom in. Pull back
In reply to: john paul farouf 's message, "Zoom in. Pull back" on 09:18:49 11/27/99 Sat

surfed in-blown away -back soon lb

> From the vast cold reaches of space,
> sweep into a universe,
> and on, to a solar system.
> Through to one star in countless billions,
> pass its moon and swing down,to the planet below.
> Deeper, nearer.
> See the Oceans and the land.
> Closer now, find a country, then a state,
> then a city then a town,
> then a village.
> Just there.
> A village road.
> Follow it
> Further. There it is.
> A car
> overturned.
> It's a Buick, pale yellow.The sunlight flashes on the
> slowly
> spinning spokes, of the slowly spinning wheel.
> See the wheels lazy turn,
> hear the 'tick' of the hot metal.
> Move to the hand as it flops to rest,
> outstretched.
> Watch it twitch, watch it rest and be still.
> Smell the fumes
> and the dust,
> swirling by his fingers.
> See the sunlight glint
> on the dusty gold ring.
>
> LOOK AT THE STILL HAND.
>
> Lying on the ground
> through the shattered window of the overturned Buick,
> where the dust has settled now,
> at the end of the skid marks,
> on a lonely village road,
> some distance from the village,that lies next to the
> town,
> just outside the city.
> See the city merge into the state,
> in the country that's defined by the oceans,
> as the planet is seen in full.
> Back past the moon, swing by the sun and out,
> out, to a full view of this solar system.
> Swing back,
>
>
>
>
> back, and back,
> until even the tiny speck of light is gone.
> Back into the vast cold reaches of space.

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