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They're pretty subtle and except for the first one, I hadn't planned them--they just flowed

"caressing but not possessing me" alludes to the first verse of Across the Universe:

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind

Possessing and caressing me"

"Thunder galileoically enlightens and electrically encourages mind’s eye to" alludes to Bohemian Rhapsody.

A few lines down appears "here there and everywhere" which is a title to a Beatles song. I've used that at least once before. It's in the subtitle to this tanka series I wrote last year: https://marcus17043.medium.com/a-love-poem-c5b0bff9d45f

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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