Let's take a ride, little one, you think. Get in the car. We need to get out with our reflections rippling across the terrain, the vistas of the musing mind today. Today it's time to think.
As those thoughts have lived inside you for a lifetime, making your life less lonely, learning the landscape, living it along your highway to inevitable dissolubility.
You knew a lot of people. You had few friends.
For pure closeness you preferred someone you could love.
When found that was a kind of perfection.
But you are still passing along alone. Left turn at Albuquerque.
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