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At least, as Wife points out from her well of wisdom, we don't have to shovel it.

Date: 2008-11-29 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pernishus.livejournal.com
And one needn't serve it on a shingle, either...

Date: 2008-11-29 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
And now the stars gleam coldly down. So if any passing cloud feels so inclined, it can dump crystalline forms on us, and the wet surfaces can form black ice . . .

Date: 2008-11-29 02:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pernishus.livejournal.com
The More Loving One
by W. H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

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