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What is precious

to one who values nothing?

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This is not a willful detachment,

nor an enlightened state.

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More a vacuum

in the living,

in living space.

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Where did this traveler come from?

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Strange, airless nether regions

where oxygen kills,

or at minimum irrevocably maims?

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To walk about as such, among others,

others will speculate, as others do.

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“How can one be so cold?”, they wonder.

“Must have gotten messed up young.”, they say.

“Poor thing will die alone, in misery.”, they opine.

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The traveler walks on.