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typ sit
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situations was inspired by this poem...enjoy!
Prayer
in the Pentagon, by Robert Dederick
Nine planets, Sir, endlessly circle, Sir, one yellow star among
Sir's galaxies: Pluto, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Mercury, Mars, and this -- this watered and this aired this
favored one where all that crawl and swim and fly and run that
drove and swarm and herd and flock are in with tooth and leg and
lung and claw and fin created clothed and colored are by Sir
Eight colors (counting white) Sir's rainbow makes when whiteness
on Sir's broken waters breaks arched over tidal blue and
branching grey and grazing green and foaling brown down and away
with gorsing yellow glow and honeyed hay and petalled blush and
mottled winging whir; the limpid eyes each of Sir's colors wakes
dark-irised are and cleared and curved by Sir
Seven tossing seas Sir's pent-up lands divide where silver shoals
in aching green-ness glide turn suddenly and dart and flatly lie
break surface plunge and from each other hide and stare as though
by staring they aver what sweet surprise had widened each wide
eye that once looked early on creating Sir
Six senses there were then in us who were salt-tasting all along
the salt-scented shore who felt crust cool and looked on
shrinking sea and heard gull-cry on draining estuary and found
back of these five a something more: a sense of self and back of
self--Sir
Five fingers though (counting a thumb) were what we mostly were
aware of as we fought Sir's elements and cleared Sir's forests
and sought creation-wise new metalled ways to go by spinning
wheel and wing off runway. So?
Four quarters of our world began to grow too few and of Sir's
yellow star we thought equations scribbled bubbled in retort
distilled its hot explosive secrets. So?
Three questions pose themselves now as we wait: did Sir not know
how to end what Sir began? Or could we choose? Or did Sir always
plan?
Two hands of ours to bring us soon or late bent to destroy what
the hands of Sir had wrought
One day when we and all our world are brought to Nought?
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