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Written While Running
Sometimes I move so fast it hurts.
Though the things coming at me
are not moving at all.

They are soft and inviting. It's
approaching them as if they will
vanish that makes them sharp.

Running into any point
makes it a knife.
— Mark Nepo

Excerpted from Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo.