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Autumn is strange stuff
anagram of Aunt mu
but not of nostalgia.
Scarves come out, clocks go back
faulty or otherwise,
pumpkins enjoy brief popularity.
Kids collect cash
for slouched-on-the-ground
ash-bound bad dressers.
Ore tummy, heart of mould
old leaves leaving
enter the cold.
Last October
I got very depressed
when our dog got knoctober.
-John Hegley
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When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
-Walt Whitman
anagram of Aunt mu
but not of nostalgia.
Scarves come out, clocks go back
faulty or otherwise,
pumpkins enjoy brief popularity.
Kids collect cash
for slouched-on-the-ground
ash-bound bad dressers.
Ore tummy, heart of mould
old leaves leaving
enter the cold.
Last October
I got very depressed
when our dog got knoctober.
-John Hegley
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When I Heard the Learned Astronomer
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
-Walt Whitman