Saturday Poem

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"The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability." --Jerry Falwell
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"The ignorance of imminence doesn't change a thing." --Gustave Jones


The Niagara River
Kay Ryan

As though
the river were
the floor, we position
our tables and chairs
upon it, eat, and
have conversation.
As it moves along
we notice—as
calmly as though
dining room paintings
were being replaced—
the changing scenes
along the shore.  We
do know, we do
know this is the
Niagara River, but
it is hard to remember
what that means.
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