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A brightly colored glass beetle

A glimpse of the sun fell as he walked.

Her patterned red-blue-green body sparkled.

Annoyed, he said, why the sun?

I want darkness. Eternal darkness

I am carrying a heavy body on my sixteen legs-

Says to see darkness.

I want darkness. Eternal darkness

At one point the sun went out

Darkness spreads on the wings of bats.

What a dark, slippery thakathake dark!

Sixteen tired legs of glass worms again and again

That slippery glue was sinking into the darkness.

He was having a hard time walking

Yet he is walking-

He must go into deeper darkness.

That is the birthplace of darkness-light.




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