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the bedrock of heaven
clouds, right? Wrong!
heaven's refractory; built to last
adamantine stones shatter against
its billennial outcroppings of night
nothing changes here but the ever-growing
population of shades
drifting and bumping
in the party that never ends

and when the last proton
in the multiverse
gives up its ghost
it will find a home here
waiting to be reborn
along with everything else
in the next big bang
mercifully, only memory
will not survive