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  AFTER THE FACT   The mystery of history Reduces all to sophistry If fecklessly, not skeptically, Accept we its validity.   Did Kennedy form strategy Preventing Cuban tragedy When quarantined Fidel at sea? Or was it serendipity?   Did atom bomb need dropping on To-be-defeated-soon Nippon, Because Japan, to its last man, Would fight invasion hand-to-hand?   Was Civil […]

  WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE   Though we arrived just yesterday In geologic time, Appears we’ve had too much to say, And none of it sublime.   Repeated cometary blasts, The forces needed to Turn species into fossils past When time was overdue.   Like plague of locusts, we can scourge Wherever we alight. Primeval ecosystems purge. We’re quite […]

  “FOUR” CAST   The earth’s been here four billion years, But humans mere four million. How often has the atmosphere Received a “global killing?”   Have comets many seared the skies, Volcanoes oft erupted? What oceans parched till desert-dry And climates left disrupted?   How many times has planet warmed, Engorged with greenhouse gasses, While glaciers melted and reformed […]

THE HORSE’S TALE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse)   The story of the Trojan Horse Owes little to Homeric source. Its mention in the Odyssey’s About as brief as brief can be.   It took a Roman to explain (Descendence from the Trojans claim) The tale of Grecian subterfuge, Epitome of classic ruse.   For Virgil in Aeneid’sverse Records events of equine curse, Although […]

  ROMAN RUMINATION   I went to visit ancient Rome, But found it never fell. Its buildings may seem crumbled stone, But it’s alive and well.   Its mighty temples still exist Though in an altered form. Its rings of gold and amethyst Still fingers rich adorn.   For in the City Vatican The emperor still reigns, Descended from Octavian, […]