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Saturday, June 18, 2022

Come Night: Part Psuedo Pantoum, Part Pitiful Plea (11)

Come night, we, staring, spot a star
where, normally, no sparklers are,
imagine it some magic place
where, moons ago, some master race

(there, normally, no sparklers are)
conspires to avoid collapse --
where, moons ago, some master race
by eu-evolving, eu-adapts.

Conspiring to avoid collapse,
this dynasty from outer space
by eu-evolving (it adapts)
fends off a fatal fall from grace.

This dynasty from outer space
where normally no sparklers are
fends off a fatal fall from grace.
(Here's hoping that is who we are.)

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...