Shifting the Planet Off Its Axis
April 14th 2011 00:25
Continents aren’t meant to play jump rope
Or to smash one another in the face
Like hockey players
Or play catch with buildings of a major industrial nation.
But sometimes they do.
All the things we failed to nail down in our haste
To build more and newer and bigger and brighter things
Rip loose from their flimsy moorings
And going flying off into space—an inch or too—
Until like cartoon characters,
they remember gravity,
And come crashing back down,
broken in two.
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