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Spinach: I’ve never actually wanted someone to drown in a goldfish bowl.

For the record.
That was just the most awful thing I could think of off the top of my head.
Here’s a less awful thing I thought of off the top of my head, once when I was very bored and had been researching Mt. Everest (which I decided not to climb after learning that even in this modern age, there is a very strong likelihood of plunging to your death over a cliff).


Sloping
         in an
    Endless fall
        Of shining
          Snow, still
         Descending
              River-hill,
             Turned to
                Fractals,
                   Free of 
                      Tracks
                           And
                         Slowly
                            Only
                            Falling
                              Back,
                             The mountain-side

                                                      Is all. 

Check it out.  It looks like a mountain-side.  Seeeeee? 

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