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THE POET AS SCIENTIST

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Monday, February 13, 2017

Alexander Blok, Russia, from Russian

As in the olden times again, Her primly virgin tones enchanting, Our hand-crafted wheels emmired, Midst a way untrodden. My poor Russian Mother, Your grayling shelter is mine, Your song in windy weather, The loving tears of time. Your sorrows to me unknown, Your torments borne alone... Sorceress, what do you wish? A savage, tender kiss. No snare or lure, Beguile or Depart thee, Nor sorrow blur, Eternal beauty. A battered stump's a forest, A tear's a rushing river, Forest and field, a conflux, Your brow's the wooden floor. Impossibility accomplished, A long road lightened, A flash in the distance, Her eyes lightened vision, Sadly cautious ringing, The deaf coachman's song.

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