"ad astra per aspera" how many times have we heard it repeated ad nauseam how many times has it been floated like a balloon above our leaden dreams
"to the stars through difficulty" yes and so why the stars we aspire to them because they are there maybe if mallory had been an astronomer maybe if he had been a star climber
at least everest welcomes you to the top of the world at least mountains may try to **** you with great height at least elevation mimics transcendence and who doesn't like a good mime now and then
stars offer nothing but distance their light has long gone out by the time we reach them and for good measure if their light were still on we would be toast burnt not buttered not jammed not jellied crisp cinders of toast
stars are so many suns they burn like black furnaces they scorch the synapses of the soul a consuming inferno wild and explosive and dead to us
we grasp for them why they are not planets free from ourselves and all our space detritus they are not life not light that illumines more than more stars then goes out for good and all this after difficulty
never has inspiration smelled so sweet like smoke from a raging wildfire leaping over mountains to try to **** us under the canopy of dying stars