082113 #human Everything was just right, like two marbles clicking together. Like the phone ringing and a strange, good friend saying hello. Like waking from a dream of safe mediocrity long enough to see that yes, this is it, this is the real, cold, wet, aching world, full of music and going somewhere, through shifting constellations and ghost-ridden nebulae to the mystery planet, the place we all left home for aeons ago, the place we forgot we were trying to find as we played cards and smoked and drank mochas in the corrugated corridors and crenellated crannies of our interstellar vessel--