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I gave a dollar.
I gave a dime,
and once again,
a request for more.
If I respond to
every request,
for money from those.
I'll soon be homeless
and have no clothes.

The night was short,
but lest I forget,
as I awake and
the sheets are wet.
Incontinence, is not the thing,
who anyone would want,
but changing sheets at 4:30 Am,
is not what I sought.
She cannot help it, this I know
it's why I still love her so.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Why is Polaris called the North Star? First, Polaris is the nearest bright star toward the north spin axis of the Earth. Therefore, as the Earth turns, stars appear to revolve around Polaris, but Polaris itself always stays in the same northerly direction -- making it the North Star. Since no bright star is near the south spin axis of the Earth, there is currently no South Star. Thousands of years ago, Earth's spin axis pointed in a slightly different direction so that Vega was the North Star. Although Polaris is not the brightest star on the sky, it is easily located because it is nearly aligned with two stars in the cup of the Big Dipper. Polaris is near the center of the eight-degree wide featured image, an image that has been digitally manipulated to suppress surrounding dim stars but accentuate the faint gas and dust of the Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN). The surface of Cepheid Polaris slowly pulsates, causing the star to change its brightness by a few percent over the course of a few days. Portal Universe: Random APOD Generator

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I see the look in your eyes.
Crazed.
I hear the sound of your voice.
Amazed.
I see your reaction to pressure.
Dazed.
I see how you handle adversity.
Praised.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated video illustrating this disintegration, you first see a star approaching the black hole. Increasing in orbital speed, the star's outer atmosphere is ripped away during closest approach. Much of the star's atmosphere disperses into deep space, but some continues to orbit the black hole and forms an accretion disk. The animation then takes you into the accretion disk while looking toward the black hole. Including the strange visual effects of gravitational lensing, you can even see the far side of the disk. Finally, you look along one of the jets being expelled along the spin axis. Theoretical models indicate that these jets not only expel energetic gas, but create energetic neutrinos -- one of which may have been seen recently on Earth.

The red of a Rose.
The green of a grape vine,
are my favorite colors,
for I love this time of year,
when the colors of a rainbow
become so very dear,
yet the dark of charcoal,
muted with whites and grey
are in my mind, at this time of
unrest, as another life has gone away

If you must hate me
because of my color of skin,
why can't you love me
for my heart within?

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When I say, "Let's go uptown"
what does it mean?
When I say, "Let's go downtown",
is it a different scene?
We do not say east or west side town
or talk with words, bordering on obscene,
as we will not use those words
or will we demean,
the intent of the words we use,
when we describe our last dream.

When the Dawn breaks,
across this land,
in to shiny shards of glass,
will we still be here
to describe our love
and the daylight will pass.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

These three bright nebulae are often featured on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the large nebula below and right of center, and colorful M20 near the top of the frame. The third emission region includes NGC 6559, left of M8 and separated from the larger nebula by a dark dust lane. All three are stellar nurseries about five thousand light-years or so distant. Over a hundred light-years across the expansive M8 is also known as the Lagoon Nebula. M20's popular moniker is the Trifid. Glowing hydrogen gas creates the dominant red color of the emission nebulae. But for striking contrast, blue hues in the Trifid are due to dust reflected starlight. The broad interstellarscape spans almost 4 degrees or 8 full moons on the sky.

Photo by Gabriel Rodrigues Santos

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