We All Deserve a Break

The old society has been destroyed,
we are forging a new world
out the shards of the old.

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no matter how much we change
or are changed by technology,
we will still remain
recognizably human.

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And tomorrow should have been
better.
And yesterday’s smashed stones
and silted concrete
tell no tales.

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Richard, nine years agone
calls now from a new field,
where he has taken wing.
He has slipped gravity’s bonds
to the tune of three hundred pounds.

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They don’t even hear
the score of the tragic opera
they sing with aching,
noble, honeyed sadness.

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Chiaperelli saw the lines
on the surface of Mars
and assumed they were caused
by intelligent life.

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