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The Battle of Fort Bragg (Free verse) by Dovina

I used to stand on grassy bluff of Fort Braggâs ragged coast, observing the battlefield belowâ angry water versus steadfast land. Being young and full of motion, I sided with the sea. Attack was always quenched back then by strength of solid rock. Still I cheered the young and angry sea, and still it pounded. After many battles passed, some broken rocks, a lot of motion, I came again to grassy bluff, and looked from different view. Now memory moved, met solid desire, armies under different flags. Where before the rock was winning, the sea was breaking through. Gentle rolls still swelled in shallows near the shore, then toppled hard against the cliff. Resistance waned in longer view, Some rocks had slid away. Memory kept rolling in, breaking stone, dissolving need, taking it off in painful bits to spread beneath the sea.

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9-Apr-06/7:53 PM

Pretty much everything happens for reasons. That's barking up the wrong tree. The difference between us isn't that you believe in reasons and I don't. It's that if I say, here's a simple reason why I'm here based on things we know, you'll say, no, I don't like that reason, I want a better one.

Once again, here's the reason, without "whatsit" words:

By some principle we don't understand yet, everything in the universe exploded out of the head of a pin in one instant a long time ago. We see that when there's a lot of stuff really dense, like in a black hole, certain things happen, and it seems this "Big Bang" might be like one of those things. All this stuff that exploded out of the Big Bang had certain characteristics. One of those is that it attracted itself; it had "gravity". As the stuff from the Big Bang zipped around in space, it began to gather together because of gravity. Another of the characteristics of this stuff is that, in its smallest parts, it had even smaller spinning parts. That meant that the stuff tended to gather together in spheres and to have spin. One of the smaller spheres ended up spinning around a large sphere that was big enough with enough gravity that it had begun to crush its insides, creating energy and heat. The position of the small sphere and the big sphere came from the way things bounce off of and attract each other. The small sphere happened to have a certain kind of stuff -- let's just start saying "matter" -- that, over a long long time and a process we don't totally understand yet, became "life". This "life" wanted to eat other "live" stuff, so a set of basic things started happening. The bigger, faster, more mobile life could catch and eat the smaller, weaker life. Life that could form more of itself had a better chance of not getting all eaten, too. So a lot of "live" things got eaten -- a WHOLE lot -- but a couple kinds of life managed to produce more of themselves and, if they were big and strong, they produced big and strong "offspring". It might not have gone this way. They could have all just died, but that wouldn't be much of a story, would it? Maybe that does happen tons of places we never hear from. Anyway, the strongest of the big and strong "offspring" had better chances of not getting eaten and THEY had better chances of having big and strong offspring too. This doesn't mean that only the strong survived. That's never been true about evolution. But you can see how if bigger/stronger lifes have just a 1% better chance of living than smaller/weaker lifes, over a very very long time there are going to be more bigger stronger lifes.

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