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Will, if I could,
grant all your dreams,
fulfilling happiness,
to your health supreme.

You are an enigma
and have me confused,
for when I speak,
I seem to offend you.

"Don't tell me what I like,"
you said to me,
in a snappy way.
Oops, I'll let it be.

I talk over people
was another refrain.
I'll have to plead guilty,
though it caused me pain.

It's a way we talk
where I come from.
If you didn't speak,
your words wouldn't come.

I am sorry if these
words which I say,
cause you distress,
I'll just go away.

I enjoy your company
and talking with you,
but don't reprimand me
for the words which I choose.

The words which I speak,
are important to me,
so, I'll keep on talking.
It's the way I will be.

I hope I'm like you,
when I grow up,
instead of like now,
wandering like a pup.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Diffuse starlight and dark nebulae along the southern Milky Way arc over the horizon and sprawl diagonally through this gorgeous nightscape. The breath-taking mosaic spans a wide 100 degrees, with the rugged terrain of the Patagonia, Argentina region in the foreground. Along with the insider's view of our own galaxy, the image features our outside perspective on two irregular satellite galaxies - the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The scene also captures the broad tail and bright coma of Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007.

Photo by Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology)

I am lactose intolerant,
so, no dairy for me.
The only product I'll eat
is from a plant or a tree.

I want to get a tattoo.
Why? I haven't the faintest idea.
I'll put it on my bucket list.
I need a tattoo which will blend
in with my "alligator skin".
I have now made a commitment,
so, here's your chance to make
suggestions. Be Nice.

When the fleas
on the dog,
have nothing to do,
do they sit on a log,

awaiting another
one like you?
Why must we behave
in this way, too?

A partial quote from Gordon Lightfoot,

If I could find
time in a bottle,
here's the first thing,
I would do."

Relive the years,
which I spend with you,
to make you happier,
than before, too.

For you are my love,
I love you more,
than the words of
a song from before.

Please let the words
tumble from my head.
I no longer know if,
I'm alive or am dead.

Too many thoughts
crossing my mind,
most are encouraging,
some are unkind.

Why do I care,
about trivia things?
Is it because of
the exchanging of rings?

I vowed to
honor and obey,
not to stay hidden,
out of the way.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Just as the Moon goes through phases, Venus' visible sunlit hemisphere waxes and wanes. This sequence of telescopic images illustrates the steady changes for Venus during its recent 2023 apparition as our evening star. Gliding along its interior orbit between Earth and Sun, Venus grows larger during that period because it is approaching planet Earth. Its crescent narrows though, as the inner planet swings closer to our line-of-sight to the Sun. Closest to the Earth-Sun line but passing about 8 degrees south of the Sun, on August 13 Venus reached its (non-judgmental) inferior conjunction. And now Venus shines above the eastern horizon in predawn skies, completing its transition to planet Earth's morning star. On August 21, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its sixth gravity assist flyby of Venus, using the encounter to maneuver the probe toward its closest approach yet to the Sun.

Photo by Roberto Ortu