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Villanelle: Talk Not of the Birth of Planets Around Distant Stars

Villanelle : Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars Nor of how déchets comets shunted life to arid earth What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores Wildly lashing oceans marked the limits of our maws When travel slithered on foot mountains did us girth Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars How many the astral bodies how shiny the lights of yores Would clog up the firmament to keep us from eternal truth What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores Flights of human minds forged in the blasts of quasars Can in no way enlighten the frigidity of the hearth Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars Even if life down hère could have evolved brazen bizarres Pluck not excuses from the skies aloof to comfort us in mirth What’s our life worth if we live in mangers as bores Much rather stop this brilliant race from owning stars Than believe in the sacrosanct rule of space by earth Talk not of the birth of planets around distant stars Will life be chaste if we stoke more monstrous maws © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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T Wignesan

Date: 11/14/2014 4:43:00 AM

Hi Greg & Paul ! Thanks very much for the warm landing reception on your galactic hideout. I've splayed out my antennae to track you down. In the meantime, watch out for those mundane-spooks from Allemania-Gaul riding a chip of a comet rodeo-wise! Those guys are out to beat the longest sleepless space walkabout in the history of the wildest asteroid bush. Take care and don't fail to wave as I shoot past in my shot-down-star! Every good wish.Ta! Ta! Wignesan