Ponderable and poem for Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Alan Harris
Oct 29, 2009, 1:40:19 AM10/29/09
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Even perfection has its limitations. For example, a perfect square can hardly roll.
Falls Visitor
A hundred feet from
Niagara's Horseshoe Falls
hurtling blindly down
with groaning gravitation
stood the antebuilding all
a-color inside, and a-glitz
with trinkets and toys
crafted in worldwide shacks.
Chattering T-shirted tourists,
sporting transparent rainsuits
and chewing chewing gum,
made ready for their big wows.
Cheep! from suddenly ceilingward
descended the speech of a sparrow
trapped in this house of gee whiz--
divinity by surprise.
Niagara's Horseshoe Falls
hurtling blindly down
with groaning gravitation
stood the antebuilding all
a-color inside, and a-glitz
with trinkets and toys
crafted in worldwide shacks.
Chattering T-shirted tourists,
sporting transparent rainsuits
and chewing chewing gum,
made ready for their big wows.
Cheep! from suddenly ceilingward
descended the speech of a sparrow
trapped in this house of gee whiz--
divinity by surprise.
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Alan Harris
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