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Polar Bearings (Free verse) by impert&ent If you drew a line right round this earth
It would pass between us
Like a crack in the shell of a great brown egg
A few more rotations and your chicks will leave home
Making fragments of your world
Drawing new creases around your brow
We follow those lines with every day of our lives
Living along and in between
Not sure if ends meet or paths cross
But believing in the line is easier than taking a dive
From this bit of shell
And swimming free
Up the ladder:
How to make a suicide bomber
Down the ladder:
Old Glory
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Posted: July 25, 2005 11:35 AM PDT; Last modified: July 25, 2005 11:35 AM PDTWeighted score: 5.153681 Overall Rank: 5202 Comments:
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T. Jonathron Remp @ 69.152.93.158
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25-Jul-05/12:54 PM
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And out of this egg would come lifegoo suspending quite an enormous young megaturtle
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impert&ent @ 80.195.201.212
> T. Jonathron Remp
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25-Jul-05/2:00 PM
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Basically. With the possible addition of some golly wogs and funny hats.
YESss! Woo-Hoo!!!!! Two thumbs up!
Seriously, that's kind of clever. Because the only way you couldn't draw a line around the earth to pass between two objects is if one was on top of the other.
Thanks for the kudos... but the two objects could both be on one side of a line, like Belfast and Buenos Aires are both on the west side of the Greenwich meridian.
It gets trickier with regard to things that are on both sides of a line, like London. Or a marriage.
That's not what you said.
Consider this: I am sitting about six inches from my cup of coffee. Can a line be drawn around the Earth which passes between us? Yes. An infinite number can.
I've got two questions about this.
1. Which part of what I said? 2. Of those infinite lines, how many definite lines would you draw between you and the coffee, and how many would you draw on the other side of you and the coffee, but between (you+coffee) and I? None? One? Many? 235 view(s)
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