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The Oort Cloud Cometh

The Oort Cloud Cometh A few million years from now if we are here Comets by the thousands will appear Sent by cosmic forces originated from out there Science says the Oort cloud is to blame Some odd unseen entity called Nemeses is also named A planet or black sun gone rogue Gone wrong along the way In elongated odd elliptic orbit A distant anomaly around our sun will form Mysteriously align at Oort cloud and collide In a moment of eccentricity by chance It hurls millions of object free in our direction Without detection, meteors and comets head for Earth Catastrophe is sure to follow if not deflected I hope we find defense by then If not, since we are already dead, long before this event Why the pretense? Why pretend? What would it mean in any case If the Earth should shatter It will only move our graves to outer space With other matter

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