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Water me not,
Don't you see,
For I only want
Some Rye Whiskey

Listen not to what is said
from someone who is brain dead.

A Pox on thee
oh dreadful one.
May you find
what you forsook.
Why not try
reading a book?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What is the band of light connecting the ground to the Milky Way? Zodiacal light -- a stream of dust that orbits the Sun in the inner Solar System. It is most easily seen just before sunrise, where it has been called a false dawn, or just after sunset. The origin of zodiacal dust remains a topic of research, but is hypothesized to result from asteroid collisions and comet tails. The featured wide-angle image shows the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy arching across the top, while the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, is visible on the far left. The image is a combination of over 30 exposures taken last July near La Serena among the mountains of Chile. During the next two months, zodiacal light can appear quite prominent in northern skies just after sunset. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator

Photo by Roman PončaMasaryk U.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds. Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, visible near the featured image center spanning six light years across, is thus creating the surrounding nebula known as M1-67. Details of why this star has been slowly blowing itself apart over the past 20,000 years remains a topic of research. WR 124 lies 15,000 light-years away towards the constellation of the Arrow (Sagitta). The fate of any given Wolf-Rayet star likely depends on how massive it is, but many are thought to end their lives with spectacular explosions such as supernovas or gamma-ray bursts.

Wherever I wander
wherever I roam,
there is nothing like
my home sweet home.

A dream,
A vision,
A picture of you.
My heart
will race,
with joy,
Recalling my
memories anew.
Days will go
You will see,
Beautiful thoughts
Are coming
About thee.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

A surreal night skyscape, this panorama stitched from 12 photos looks to the west at an evening winter sky over Pic du Midi Observatory, Pyrenees Mountains, Planet Earth. Telescope domes and a tall communications tower inhabit the rugged foreground. On the right, lights from Tarbes, France about 35 kilometers away impinge on the designated dark sky site though, but more distant terrestrial lights seen toward the left are from cities in Spain. Stars and nebulae of the northern winter's Milky Way arc through the sky above. Known to the planet's night skygazers, the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters still hang over the western horizon near center. Captured in mid February the familiar stars of the constellation Orion are to the left and include the no longer fainting star Betelgeuse.

Photo by Patrick Lécureuil

A symbol I see
away in the dark
of a bird that flutters.
A beautiful Lark.
The Lark with a
full sounding voice,
can make this old man's
mind still rejoice.

When the things we know
become so mundane.
When we peer from the window
at the Winter rain.
The coolness, is there
but there is no freeze.
Perhaps it is now.
Where is the breeze.
The bulbs of flowers, everywhere
are poking through the ground, so bare.
There will soon be a new display
of colors to view on the new day.

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CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/locations-confirmed-cases.html
Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/symptoms-causes/syc-20479963
Washington State Department of Health: https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/statement-covid-19-case-harborview-medical-center
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