Very, very nice musing, K.L. (what does K.L. stand for, by the way?). Made me think of Bob Dylan's, "Ballad in Plain D."

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Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me

"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"

And I answer them most mysteriously

"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

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And, me, I think of Earth as a prison planet.