Once-In-A-Lifetime
in which our narrator throws caution to the wind to experience the great conjunction of heavenly bodies
Everyone is ready now, for the
Culmination of days, months, years of expectation, this
Life-changing event, they call it, Totality or Bust! So
I’ve ditched my day’s responsibilities, called out sick and
Purchased my special fancy glasses, driven 16 hours just to
See it happen, right before my eyes, up there, where the
Entire sky is covered by a great grey cloud
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Pete Gustavson
Pete Gustavson is an award-winning songwriter who dabbles in fiction, and can't decide between Elmore Leonard and Hilary Mantel. He lives with his wife and children in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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