The Leonids, 11/18, 2002

Poetry

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S. R. Compton

Issue: 10 March 2003

Connect the dots, connect the dots:
There are lions in the sky,
lines that flash and wink out,
portents they used to say
of catastrophe

Connect the dots, connect the dots. . .
there is water there is life
there is a hole in the sky
only the hydrofluorocarbons know for sure
there is water there is life

Connect the dots, connect the dots--
a lion roars.
I read the paper
catastrophes are coming
catastrophes are coming

but the stars are beautiful

About S. R. Compton

S.R. Compton is an occasional poet. In the last century, he had poems in Star*Line, Velocities, and Alba. He works as a senior copy editor at PC World Magazine in San Francisco.

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