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Synopsis:
The observable, the unobservable, the non-observed feed a narrator’s conversation with celestial bodies.Or with anyone reading.
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One hundred billion stars in the Milky Way
as many as galaxies in the observable Universe
One septillion stars in the observable Universe
—and that is twenty-four zeros after the number one
Astronomers have discovered
more than three thousand and two hundred
other stars with planets orbiting them
Astrologers have been meeting virtually
to give their views about how many
constellations are likely
to be in the non-observed observable Universe
Celestial bodies have been communicating
in ways as yet unobservable
—so this is a very wild guess
but rumor has it that they think
that in a galaxy far far away
there is a little blue planet of interest
pouring out noxious substances
into the Milky Way
Apparently, there is intelligent life
but there is much uncertainty
as to what the intelligent life is up to
some investigators report
that they are trying to halt the unmindful
their pernicious stuffs
and their efforts to obliterate
the little blue planet
—also theirs
to stop the genocides
they cause to satisfy their avarice
and their neglectful addiction
to power.
