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One day there won’t be any people on

Gale Acuff

Earth, they’ll all be dead or maybe colo
-nizing some other marble, which I doubt,
people often do awful things and I
know that if I were a planet and I spied
a spacecraft coming after me I’d dis
-appear if I could or black myself out
or step to one side, if there are sides in
space, and maybe even shout Ole when
the ship made a pass, then finally wear it
out and as for the ritual kill it would
still be a kill but maybe I’d have mercy
and train it to carry me on its back
or pull a plow through an endless furrow
but me still in the shade. We have liftoff.

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