Those lights in the sky at night are not
from the stars as they are now. Also,
they are from where the stars were.
Now the stars are some place else
and the stars themselves are different.
Each point of life you see is the central point
of a continuously expanding sphere of light
that the star sent out once long ago
while going away It interpenetrates
all the other spheres of all the other stars.
I don't think that it refers to you because
it all happened so long ago. You're too stupid
to listen to me, you beautiful astrologist, and I'm too stupid to know
what's happening out there where space is dark
and filled with interpenetrating spheres of light.
ALAN DUGAN
My son has been picking up the word "stupid" thanks to a Mr. SquarePants. We're trying not to make a big deal out of it, hoping it just passes, which it usually does. Although, the other day it rolled off my tongue without realizing and he must of said it near fifty times in a row. Doh!
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