“There is no there; there” Gertrude Stein about Oakland, California, USA.

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There.

It’s a place that isn’t here,

There is just next to here.

There is, well, over there.

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Here is right here,

There is just next to here or far from here,

There as another thing isn’t so clear,

There is either a short, or long, distance from here.

“There, there, dear.” Comforting words from your mother,

There is the other.

There too can be scary; unfamiliar.

There can be just across the room or far from one another.

Or, to the beginnings of time and the creation of space.

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“There,” one whips in icy rebuke. “I told you so.”

The shadenfreud words of your frenemy.

“There.”

Though it can also be a delight.

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There has many guises,

And alien places.

There is special simply because,

It’s the opposite of here in your life.

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