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2025 Letter - by Uzay - zephyr song

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I wrote a letter this year about 2025. It's about acceleration, poetry, how it's been the most eventful year of my life, and how I am excited and scared for the future. I want to tell you a story about 2025. As I bump along today and approach 21 on into the new year, in a van riding from Burgundy to Paris, and I stare at the small hills, the snow inscribed against the mud like frosted chocolate, extending down into the highway and then melting over into the warm grass on the south side -- I feel an urge to share with you, share this feeling flaring in my spine, of sitting and eating the bread of my youth and imagining it and its associated customs withering in my mouth, I feel an urge to imagine now the world hidden up against the stars, the whole earth green, or black, studded with steel platforms, imagine now what it might feel like for us to live there and what we might hold on to in that place. I want to tell you a story about the world, about my life, and maybe yours, about 2025,

I wrote a letter this year about 2025. It's about acceleration, poetry, how it's been the most eventful year of my life, and how I am excited and scared for the future. I want to tell you a story about 2025. As I bump along today and approach 21 on into the new year, in a van riding from Burgundy to Paris, and I stare at the small hills, the snow inscribed against the mud like frosted chocolate, extending down into the highway and then melting over into the warm grass on the south side -- I feel an urge to share with you, share this feeling flaring in my spine, of sitting and eating the…

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