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by Ivan Reyes


A time traveler 
Told me 
The future is bright 
He said to look back 
To the past 
Towards the great historians, 
Xenophon 
Plutarch 
Herodotus, 
Their ink stained 
More than pages 
Like sperm 
Upon the ovum of time 
And birthed tyrants and heroes 
Then the time traveler kissed me 
This is how we do, 
In the future, 
He said 
He said he knew the day he died 
And set himself toward then 
Somewhere in the tenth dimension 
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