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In my dream
the scientist had grown
creatures.
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They were face-less, limb-less,
they glowed and had to live
in water.
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One was orange and pink like a sunset
shaped
like a kidney. It was the one
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I wanted. I asked - What are they?
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She said:
We are the things inside us.
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These can be scanned
by science tools. We could slice you open, slip them in. They can be seen
on screens. This will help them not
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remove the things
we need.
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(slice me open)
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She said:
We are the things inside us, but
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we aren't anything that we contain.
This is a prototype and
it won't work.
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Even though: the slicing,
I did want it. It could be scanned and seen
on screens. It glowed under the water.
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But then, it wouldn't work
because
I'm nothing I contain.
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I am the things inside me
and I'm nothing
I contain.
-Laura
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