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Never Trust a Cloud
Never trust the clouds
They’ll always disappear on you
Fall back on them and you’ll fall right through
I once fell for almost 30 minutes
Expecting a soft and cushy landing
Before realizing clouds are nothing more than a
Smokescreen.
Oh, there are some I suppose
Who try to be transparent
But how can they propose
To float under celestial creatures—
With harps and wings and halos—
For Heaven’s sake, everyone knows they’re just trying to
Obscure our view of the rainbows!
Others are very diplomatic
Only appearing when necessary
In a grave aspect
We hope they have arrived to
Please the children with their
Misleading shapes and figures
But really they’ve come in their perfunctory fashion
To rain on our parade.
There were a few ancients—all pagan—
Who could read the signs
Discern clouds’ hapless ways and their silver linings,
Appreciate their secret wanderings.
But I’d prefer they not hide or disfigure
The Second Day’s ordained division
Or if the modern world is looking for
Our own version of a Virgilian
Guide to heaven
We’ll always be disappointed
By the clouds.
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