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--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> All literature, even very wonderful literature, even
> in class society,
> does not involve suffering but rather celebrates
> merely being alive.
>
> THE ICOSOSPHERE
>
> "In Buckinghmshire hedgerows
> the birds nestingf in the merged green density,
> weave little bits of string and moths and
> feathers and
> thistledown,
> in parabolic concentric curves" and,
> working for concavity, leave spherical feats of rare
> efficiency;
> whereas through lack of integration,
>
> avid for someone's fortune,
> three were slain and ten committed perjury,
> six died, two killed themselves, and two paid
> fines for
> risks they'd run.
> But then there is the icosasphere
> in which at last we have steel-cutting at its
> summit of
> economy,
> since twenty triangles conjoined, can wrap one
>
> ball or double-rounded shell
> with almost no waste, so geometrically
> neat, it's an icosahedron. Would the engineers
> making one,
> or Mr. J.O. Jackson tell us
> how the Egyptians could have set up
> seventy-eight-foot solid
> granite vertically?
> We should like to know how that was done.
>
>
> ----
>
> Poems don't get any better.
>
> Carrol
>
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