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Archive 12/22/08 - (1)

	Christmas Clipper                                                                           Christmas isn't even three days from me; It's so close, it hurts. Yet I'm somewhere so very far away, neither there nor here.   Could it be that I'm a psychically disembodied spirit, Adrift on a brisk clipper Blasting my mind, my heart, shivering my vertebrae?   What's happening to my insides? How can they be burning? By Christmas Eve night, I might be just a block of ice with a flame at its core.                            12/22/08 - (1)