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these are not the droids you've been looking for

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

June 29, 2026

these are not the droids you've been looking for
but they arrived anyway

as branch

as tree

as dark​
​
​Ask a river​

and it will tell you

that the

eyes

lost it

at twelve

the first sight of

star wars

in a boarding

school

auditorium

on

V
H
S

no less
​

the only thing I saw

clearly were the

shining

eyes of the

sand people

glinting red

and those two suns he

longed for

at sunset

​
longing

longing

yearning

yearning

elsewhere

came
​

~ prelude to

starry starry future river

episode one:what is your given name​
enter the river of adventure

​here idhar aquí​

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- hello june 29, you said you'd arrive and you did, in a different form, o lover of the dark, o moon, o green, o river, o body who follows rain into rivers

-mad for mountains, mesas, shorn trees, lost stones, that hollow place under the neck, that cave of clavicle, something about that space

-go forth into the most unreasonable of longings, will you....

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