Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking
“On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star
would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons.
The equivalent weight of how much railway
it would take to get a third of the way to the sun.
Its the collective weight of every animal
on earth. Times three.
Six billion tons sounds impossible
until I consider how it is to swallow grief–”
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Be The Change
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 