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On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 10:53:14 AM UTC-4, Richard Oakley wrote:
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> Decima For Decima
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> Decima, aim your rod to screen
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> Your life is only measured on internet surfage?
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> Film into the eyeless abyss
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> I like how 'eyeless abyss' sounds but what does it mean?
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> To a level in lighted mist
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> Darkness to light? Lighted mist means turning on the pc screen??
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> Tenth Norn of afterimage dream
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> Tenth north? Street address?

A Norn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns

The tenth Norn arrives at the exit point of life, perhaps.

> What's afterimage dreams? Life is but a dream?

A ghost's dream.

> Nests of ghosts in a webbed beam
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> Spiders as ghost on a beam? Or you are crawling on the web i.e. internet?
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> Born illuminated and queer
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> We're usually born with poor sight, is this to contrast how the net was born to carry information giving incite?
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> Shake fate infinity mirror
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> Fate, according to the parable and by definition,  cannot be changed. It just IS.

Can't fate be "shaken", and sent off course at all?

> Glowing light child of Chaos string
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> Who's this 'child of Chaos?' You? Are you trying to explain something new here?
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> Night-swim bouncing and measuring
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> The Fates never measured while swimming, or on a boat, their measures were precise?
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> A weird sister without anger.
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> Makes the most sense,  she measured a life without malice. Just did her job.
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> -Will Dockery
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> I like how it sounds but the sense is, seemingly, lacking.

You really made a bit of sense from it or came really close, as it is a poem in honor of a class of being that is a peer to the beloved Muses.

:)