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Curiosity [151]

Curiosity

They say you don't have to teach a child curiosity...
you just have to crush it.

But, I wouldn't know. My kind doesn't ask questions. We merely blink yes or no.
But these old books... contain worlds where I'll never go. I cherish them all, hide them where others don't look.

"Curiosity is not allowed", they'd tell me. I'd rather they didn't know.

Here among the dusty pages of other species I can enter their alien worlds, try to imagine me then and there. If they still exist I could ask them questions my kind never ponders. I'd sit with their curious children.

They'd understand. They'd know.

© Kåre Enga (22.june.2017) [174.151] /30:21.1/

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