<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t2" style="width: 540px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Letters from the North Star</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="td2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: auto;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td3"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">Dear you: the lights here ask </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">nothing, the white falling </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">around my letters silent, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">unstoppable. I am writing this </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">from the empty stomach of sleep </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">where nothing but the cold </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">wonders where you’re headed; </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">nobody here peels heads sour </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">and cheap as lemon, and only </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">the car sings <em class="">AM</em> the whole </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">night through. In the city, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">I have seen children half- </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">bitten by wind. Even trains </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">arrive without a soul </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">to greet them; things do </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">not need me here, this world </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">dances on its own. Only bridges </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">beg for me to make them </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">famous, to learn what I had </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">almost forgotten of flying, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" class=""><span class="s1"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">of soaring free, south, </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><span class="s1"><font size="4" class="">down. So long. Xs, Os.</font></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Kevin Young</span></div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="t1" style="width: 540px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="middle" class="td2"></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>