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No more the night,
no more the day,
my heart is breaking.
Loves gone away.

Raining hard,
in many sheets,
blowing wind,
starting to beat,
against window
panes of glass,
wetting siding,
now soaked.

A muddy track,
winds through,
trees swaying.
Don't get lost
in reverie,
I'm no longer,
the man
I used to be.

I had a red wagon,
all wheels were loose.
When I pulled, it
waddled like a goose.

Funny, you say.
It's all I had,
I was happy,
I wasn't sad.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Stars of the globular cluster NGC 2419 are packed into this Hubble Space Telescope field of view toward the mostly stealthy constellation Lynx. The two brighter spiky stars near the edge of the frame are within our own galaxy. NGC 2419 itself is remote though, some 300,000 light-years away. In comparison, the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, is only about 160,000 light-years distant. Roughly similar to other large globular star clusters like Omega Centauri, NGC 2419 is intrinsically bright, but appears faint because it is so far away. Its extreme distance makes it difficult to study and compare its properties with other globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Sometimes called "the Intergalactic Wanderer", NGC 2419 really does seem to have come from beyond the Milky Way. Measurements of the cluster's motion through space suggest it once belonged to the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, another small satellite galaxy being disrupted by repeated encounters with the much larger Milky Way.

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Arose the vassal of desire,
where lust became a fire.
Heat and light, lonely people,
as we wonder, will it expire?

I may never see you,
One thing's for certain,
You will always be my friend.
in this life again.

What light, I see,
through dusty pane,
of wet sidewalks,
with more cold rain.

It's a new release,
I want to hear,
about the excitement,
when you are near.

I now understand,
I was a boy, not a man,
when I had my first,
one night stand.

A different feeling'
a different life,
before I was married,
to my lovely wife.

Why think
of those things,
events of the past,
which your memory brings.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions. Also known as M31, the spiral galaxy is a mere 2.5 million light-years away. NGC 206 is found right of center in this sharp and detailed close-up of the southwestern extent of Andromeda's disk. The bright, blue stars of NGC 206 indicate its youth. In fact, its youngest massive stars are less than 10 million years old. Much larger than the open or galactic clusters of young stars in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 206 spans about 4,000 light-years. That's comparable in size to the giant stellar nurseries NGC 604 in nearby spiral M33 and the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Photo by Howard Trottier

My thoughts are
with you, today.
I worry so,
now I'll pray.

I see you
every day,
struck by
wasting away.

A shell
of the woman,
I love, still do,
as much as I can.