Penumbra 2022

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names, Cathy and Matt. I think they liked me. I hope my t-shirt didn’t look too shabby. -Chris Noland

Sundipped and Drenched I opened a fortune cookie last week Well actually I opened three fortune cookies last week But I accidentally put two fortunes in my sweatshirt pocket and they got torn To pieces by the washing machine I remembered to take the last fortune out Fortunately It tells me that a long awaited event will arrive soon I wonder if it will arrive today But no, I don’t think it will Isn’t it…. Weird how the sun is always above us? That even when it’s cloudy it’s still up there somewhere? And I know this isn’t possible… But… Imagine if someone lives up on the sun with a telescope And they spy on us Opening fortune cookies The sun in and of itself is a horror A massive Spinning Orb Of heat It’s… terrifying But we would die without it So there’s that I think it’s romanticized actually But my memory of it has always been a marvelous wonder When it hits the snow in Chicago 17


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