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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Monuments

I saw a cloud today in the infinite blue

it lingered for a moment

a fragile wisp

before evaporating

leaving only a negative retinal memory

when I closed my eyes

the only monument to its

ever having existed

How ironic.

That cloud, (when one considers

the system it is a part of)

has done more for humanity

than many of the so-called

'great men' of our time

who are remembered

in lasting ores

inanimate witnesses to their accomplishments

and all the cloud got

was this poem.

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