There was a hippo in the kitchen. No one knew how it got there, or when, but there was undeniably an enormous, sloppy, disheveled hippo in the kitchen.
"And," I said, examining the lunch my mothe
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Operating at the highest capacity
Taking flight when it should not be
I am the creator of the night
A machine that never sleeps
Never powers down
Never weeps
Never knows when I should just
Breathe
And say
"This is okay"
That I am okay
And if I am not
That I will be okay
And that it is fine to cry
Because crying means you're alive