5/15/2026 for Conspiracy Theories Poetry Contest sponsored by Suzette Richards
they can't slip one past me intellectuals, smarty-pantses I know what my eyes can see it's ninth grade geometry good thing pilots and sailors know the top of the earth is flat I'm not sure about the bottom where the roots hang through on top, there's a hemisphere that's where you see the sun and moon why don't they bump? only God knows 9th grade geometry works on a flat surface Horace Greeley said it go west like Magellan circumnavigate the world you end up in the same place you avoid the edge where monsters be you've gone in a wide circle I live in the center of the world and cut a smaller circle only thing I haven't figured out what keeps the ocean water from draining off the edge?
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