<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="">Realism<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div id="content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div itemprop="articleBody" class="articleBody" id="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="poetry" style="border: 0px; margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><p word_count="67" data-wc="67" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 410px 32px 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">God said, your name is mud</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">and the thing about mud is you</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">got to throw it down</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">repeatedly</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">to remove the air</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">and sometimes cut it</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">and rejoin it with another part.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">If stars are made of dust,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">it’s not the same stuff,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">God said;</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">you can’t make a hut out of it,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">only heaven,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">and when I said dust to dust,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;" class="">that’s not what I meant.</span></p></div></div></div><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 410px 32px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 1040px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><section class="article-contributors" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><aside class="author-details" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div rel="me" itemprop="url" class="author-details-wrap" style="border: 0px; margin: -10px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center;"><div class="author-masthead has-bio" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex: 1 1 0%; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><div class="contributor-info" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; line-height: 1.4; letter-spacing: -0.2px; display: inline;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> </span>- Beth Bachmann</div></div></div></div></aside></section></footer></div></body></html>