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Response to Millenium Poetry?

from ilza (ilza@pobox.com)
I will email you whatever I find . In the meantime, althought not quite what you want, this is a nice and funny poem about 'the future '. . Progress by Samuel Hoffenstein - ( 1890 - 1947 )

They'll soon be flying to Mars, I hear -

But how do you open a bottle of beer ?

A flash will take you from Nome to New York -

But how the hell do you pull a cork ?

They'll rocketeer you to Hibernia -

But open a window and get a hernia.

They've stripped space from the widow'd blue -

But where is the lace that fits a shoe ?

Where is the key that fits a lock ?

Where is the garter that holds a sock ?

They'll hop to the moon and skip to the stars,

But what'll stay put are the lids on jars.

The mighty telescope looks far,

But finds no place to park a car.

The world crackles with cosmic minds

Tangled up in Venetian blinds.

One day they'll resurrect the dead,

Who'll die again of colds in the head.

(posted 9106 days ago)

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