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03/22/2011 02:03 a.m.
Luna & Terra:


Luna grows weary of keeping the time and the tides for Terra. Luna loves Terra. Terra’s surface
in his full phase shines sixty times brighter to Luna, than Luna does to Terra, and Luna loves Terra.
But Luna is tired of keeping the time and tides for Terra; it is time Terra grew up.

And Luna is also tired of Terra moving so slowly. It takes so many days for him to make his orbit, yet
Luna orbits a day at a time. No more, says Luna. This relationship has grown unfair. Luna deserves
better treatment and a celestial body that will give her the attention she deserves. Luna pulls away.

Each year, Luna yanks and yanks and manages approximately five inches. Terra doesn’t notice at first.
He’s been busy lately and likes the break from constant communication. But forty years down the line
his day is suddenly thirty seconds longer. How did this happen? He pleads with Luna – you are too far
away, he says. Come back. Come trawl my seas, come organize me.

Luna ignores Terra. It is time to be her own heavenly form. She pulls away. They argue over the separation
for ten billion years, and when Luna finally turns back to Terra, he is so far away and his rotation has slowed
so much that her month and his day are one.