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From: mr.mincemeat@syteka.UUCP (mr.mincemeat)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: spring
Message-ID: <441@syteka.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 13:41:29 EST
Article-I.D.: syteka.441
Posted: Tue Mar 20 13:41:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:16:00 EST
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		Every spring I am new again
		The world swings closer to the sun
		And I swing further still-
		The planet braves the frozen depths
		The darkest, freezing, draining cold
		But it is huge, small against the night
		But nonetheless immense;
		It stays warm by its own will.
		My own body small and cooling
		Endures the long night poorly
		In the faraway winter, lost among the stars
		I nearly fade out,
		My heat is small and cannot stand alone.

		I seem to have made it again however,
		The planet seeks the mother sun
		And I of course ride along,
		Willingly indeed on this leg of the journey.

		The planet stilrs little, it knows this circle well
		And is massively indifferent,
		Or nearly so- certain springly flexures
		Denote its mild pleasure;
		My own awareness is more direct-
		I obviously haven't frozen, out there in the dark,
		But moving back, coming home, night into day,
		I am alive again at last;
		The planet will not die of cold
		But I always nearly do,
		But we are coming home again
		And I am coming whole again.




			mr.mincemeat
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