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  4. Mother Earth: Her Whales 
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  6. The robots argue how to parcel out our Mother Earth
  7. To last a little longer
  8.                 like vultures flapping
  9. Belching, gurgling,
  10.                 near a dying Doe.
  11.  
  12. ‚ÄúIn yonder field a slain knight lies‚Äî
  13. We‚Äôll fly to him and eat his eyes
  14.                 with a down
  15.        derry derry derry down down.‚Äù
  16.  
  17.           An Owl winks in the shadow
  18.           A lizard lifts on tiptoe
  19.                    breathing hard
  20.           The whales turn and glisten
  21.                    plunge and
  22.           Sound, and rise again
  23.           Flowing like breathing planets
  24.  
  25.           In the sparkling whorls
  26.  
  27.           Of living light.
  28.  
  29.                                     40072, Stockholm: Summer Solstice
  30.  
  31.                                  -- Gary Snyder, Turtle Island 
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