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<p><span class="line">Waiting for a reading to start</span><span class="line">when there’s nobody coming anyway</span><span class="line">is like waiting <a href="cold-wind.html">for the tide</a></span><span class="line">to make some meaning of the beach.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">The sea doesn’t know or care</span><span class="line">what the beach even is, let alone</span><span class="line">its cares or its troubles, its</span><span class="line">little nagging under-the-skin annoyances</span><span class="line"><a href="real-writer.html">that make the beach the beach</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">Sandworms, for example, or those crabs</span><span class="line">with big pincers on one side</span><span class="line">but not the other. Those really get</span><span class="line">the beach’s gander up, but the sea</span><span class="line">doesn’t care. The sea</span></p>
<p><span class="line">only wants to <a href="plant.html">caress</a> the beach</span><span class="line">with its <a href="something-simple.html">soft arms</a>, to tell the beach</span><span class="line">how much it’s loved by the sea,</span><span class="line">that complex of water, salt, and</span><span class="line">the moon’s gravity, the mercury</span><span class="line">rising up and down slowly, like a <a href="serengeti.html">yawn</a>.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">The sea only cares about itself.</span><span class="line">The beach lays there and takes it.</span></p>
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