• protist@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Then it grew on the dog. It grew on the couch. It grew on the house and the neighborhoid block. It grew on the town, the county, the state. It grew on the Earth, the sun, all the way to Oort cloud. When it grew on Sagittarius A* we stopped keeping track.

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      2 months ago

      With a little more ridiculous imagery, that could’ve been a Shel Silverstein poem.

      Well, except he didn’t write it…