20000101 the sun shines so brightly

the sun shines so brightly
    it does
and the grass, breathing, asserting its life with such a powerful green
    ...
    yeah
then you would think
that what stands between the two
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would have no choice but to be happy
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    everyone dreams of utopia, riley
but nobody accomplishes it
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if we gave our pets our intelligence, what lets us think and make and feel new things that nothing else could, that never existed before
would they make a world
that caused themselves so much suffering
that they wished they were never given higher faculty
that they wished
that they lived every day
running on the grass
and basking in the sun again?
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that they thought nothing, made nothing, and felt simply again
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    maybe
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    but you would be lying
    if you told me
    you weren't deeply in love
    with those new thoughts
    and those new feelings
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i would be.