a symbol of undying, unbreaking, forever strong, never to end, o, O, 0, oh, remembrance, realizations, understandings, realizations of understandings, sweet love, and tenderness, so i put it back on, tough, leathery, strong, not fragile, not brittle, not fancy or shiny, or attention grabbing, just there, weathered, foreign, yet somewhat at home, like it belongs, because it still does, as bad as that is, and it is bad, it still means something to me, end of the year blues? the coming to the head of all that was this year? or just full circle? unending, things end, things begin, different, same, lifestyles of the rich and famous, moving, without feeling, old emotions, new mediums, things are, well, they are here, with my beating heart and flowing blood, through veins colored blue, next to arteries of oxygenated blood, feeding the brain that sustains this communication, of all that is good in this world