Watch me closely, God, though you’ve seen it all before.
I’ve got the universe up my sleeve and it’s itching for a sleight, if you’re willing to be conned.
The stardust filling Aquarius has poured for countless millennia and it won’t brim the bottomless cup of your oceanic blues.
That’s the warm-up for Lepus who, lean and polar-white, leaps out from my flipped-over cap and is chased by the steel-plied Orion’s hankering for roast hare.
Hunger-driven this heaven hunter has a saggy belt; his sword’s tip drags, slicing Gemini in two, but twins can’t be parted long and divinely grasping Pollux clasps Castor’s pause anew.
Conjoined, they bow together under showers of milky petals kissing no-longer furrowed brows till black velvet curtains fall and are followed by your eons of endearing applause.
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