Who Taught You?
A POEM
Butterfly, who taught you
Your exotic dance?
Who made your wings melodious?
What makes your spirit chance
That life is meant for sailing,
That days are light and free?
Do you have a “nest egg”
Or only liberty?
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The Gravity of Our Situation
Now we shall conquer space they say,
Why not? We came from far away,
Seeing…
Twentieth-Century Adam and Eve
As aliens yearn
For the native land.
We still return
To the garden —
Taste…