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Move Over Fibber McGee

This life is big, room for everything generations long, incarnations deep. the echo bouncing between first moment and what's possible. Here’s a puzzle: with so much frontier how does the stuff still hem us in? The grand piano, chiffonier and waterbed, the stacks of magazines. Feeling stranded on a frigate of  clutter in a big wide sea? Oh my friend- it's on us! This life prefers light travel. The snow blows today in extravagant bustle because it grew wings. And behind a morning mirror there are secret sketches, hound and wolf, rib on rib, croon the moon. It's the song of ten thousand  walking out of Africa,  making  invention  the crib mate  of children,  building a world like   Fibber McGee’s closet.  "We gotta clean it out one of these days." This life rings with the dreams of grey whales, of March and Blackberry winter,  waking  and ready to sprawl like New Jersey. ...