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Ode To Hiromita

Hiromita your domicile lies in wait Make haste to your earthly gate Earth shakes bold; steady your estate Ocean's waves, briny stew doth impregnate Shelter your crops; your chicken coop insulate Another tremor, with calamity don't equate With phosphorous-laden breezes your senses fondly relate With a steady compass, another storm you'll navigate Your indestructible hearth is melded to malleable plate Many times battered; but never did obliterate Your parents bid adieu, but you must wait Dispensing the stores as an efficient magnate Your spindly wife shares your passive fate No time her tendered fealty to contemplate With due speed she puts away each sack, crate Then both ascending to the upper floor the tides to mitigate Home buttressed; hopes, dreams still ingratiate Looking windoward, a dark, towering mass doth peril insinuate You turn inward hoping your fears to attenuate The merciless surge rolls; you clasp hands the force to abrogate The black debris wave slams your home, the pummeled timbers capitulate Your filial bond doth sever; your domesticated world annihilate

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