Monday, January 5, 2009

Power the Moon

238,857 miles of extension chord
and, damn it!
It's a three-pronged chord
for a two-pronged hole

I handwrote this poem some time ago on some notebook paper. I have always liked it and have been meaning to type it up for some time. At this time, I do not have the original copy and have transcribed it from memory, thus there maybe incongruities which I will correct when I locate the original.
One incongruity was expected: when I wrote the original I was sitting in my backyard atop a sewer drain and did not know the distance from Earth to the Moon, so I put in a arbitrarily large number and planned to correct it later - which I have now done.

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