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\"elephant\"<\/p>\n

Every few months, perhaps from lack of sleep, dreams will wake me. Last night I dreamt I walked at dusk to the outskirts of a city where an elephant approached me and recited this poem:<\/p>\n

Many years have we walked in the dust to find water.
\nMany years with only tears for the dead.
\nHumans, sit with me and look up at the stars.
\nWe fight among the bones of our ancestors when the Universe awaits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every few months, perhaps from lack of sleep, dreams will wake me. Last night I dreamt I walked at dusk to the outskirts of a city where an elephant approached me and recited this poem: Many years have we walked in the dust to find water. Many years with only tears for the dead. Humans, … Continue reading “Elephant”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7AeEB-elephant","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96,"url":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/revelation-in-1-minute\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Revelation in 1 Minute","date":"October 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 The tubeway was not in its usual configuration. As usual, I had walked down from the F train platform through the vaulted enclosure of the spaceport trains to the lowest level express platform leading to the city. Something had been moved. The stretch of old slightly oily maglev had\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Revelations"","img":{"alt_text":"24916288331_a58129ce19_k","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/undestruction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/24916288331_a58129ce19_k-1024x684.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/10\/cat-chills-out-on-mars\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":1},"title":"Cat Chills Out on Mars","date":"November 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I am not a loaf! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s latest Mars rover touched down on Mars at the beginning of 2021, and it has spotted some more formations, cat loaf rock being one of them. There are no cats living on Mars, but NASA's rovers, Perseverance, spotted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AI Nonsense"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/undestruction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Chrome-alien-flying-black-cats-in-space.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/undestruction.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}