Ones and Zeros

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The sobbing boy ran over to the rosy girl

And sputtered,

"I think I am a hologram made of binary code

Because I am either nothing

Or so very close

Ones and zeros."

The rosy cheeked girl smiled

And her voice crackled sweetly like fire

And her skin gleaned tan on the ends and middles

Warm to the touch as she held his hands

"You know,

There are endless numbers

Between zero and one

There's not just a skip

Between something and none

Some are irrational and

Some are ordinary

But either way

You are composed of the sand grains on a beach

And the cells in the trees

You are

Everything.

At least,

To me."

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