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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear gods [substitutes for\u00a0 brain],<\/p>\n You gave us a thought where<\/p>\n We\u2019re both here and there in<\/p>\n The same instances. Existence.<\/p>\n A theory found with the entire<\/p>\n \n Science. Milky Way to infinity.<\/p>\n I\u2019m black means there\u2019s as much<\/p>\n Possibilities of my existence as<\/p>\n A white lily as there are thorn<\/p>\n On the face of the earth\u2014mother.<\/p>\n \n My father is dead means<\/p>\n The dead are a planted war song;<\/p>\n Hovering the night sky for the perfect<\/p>\n Pitch to fall unto. The universe<\/p>\n Says they\u2019re all the same. My father<\/p>\n \n And I . coral hit on the surface of<\/p>\n the\u00a0 mediterranean.<\/p>\n I believe in the existence of time<\/p>\n Traveling, I\u2019m merely seeking a<\/p>\n Sign to call another existence<\/p>\n \n my own.<\/p>\n Give my father life for no other<\/p>\n Reason that he still breathes in<\/p>\n My bones.<\/p>\n That death is an exit wound into<\/p>\n \n A parallel universe where all my<\/p>\n People are my own, all their<\/p>\n Thick skin with smoke\u2014stardust\u2014<\/p>\n All the stones on a tomb reverse back<\/p>\n Into ashes.\u00a0 If my world and the parallel<\/p>\n \n Are same, eject my existence from<\/p>\n The branch of wormholes that<\/p>\n Holds unto memory\u2014give me a new<\/p>\n Name, give me somewhere else to call<\/p>\n Home. The parallel means I\u2019m in a<\/p>\n \n Linear state to hold breath,<\/p>\n Body of languages and none to<\/p>\n Call my own .\u00a0 The parallel means<\/p>\n I\u2019m shot by a police for not being in<\/p>\n The right universe. The parallel<\/p>\n \n Means there\u2019s a gathering of people<\/p>\n In a wedding that is yet to be my own.<\/p>\n The parallel means a woman is nursing me<\/p>\n In the belly of a woman that just conceived me.<\/p>\n The parallel means my father is not yet in front<\/p>\n \n Of the bullet that would wipe him clean.<\/p>\n The parallel means I\u2019m waking in all the<\/p>\n Places I cannot yet call home .<\/p>\n The parallel means there\u2019s a place<\/p>\n My father would be late to attend his death<\/p>\n \n And is still nursing his bullet wound,<\/p>\n The parallel means that is where I strike first.<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Theory of parallel universes. \u00a0 Dear gods [substitutes for\u00a0 brain], You gave us a thought where We\u2019re both here and there in The same instances. Existence. A theory found with the entire Science. Milky Way to infinity. I\u2019m black means there\u2019s as much Possibilities…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143103,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143098\/revisions\/143103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}