<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Feeding the Sun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day we notice that the sun<br>needs feeding. Immediately<br>a crash program begins: we fill rockets<br>with wheat, smoke-rings, razorblades, then, <br>after long aiming<br>--they're off. Hulls specially alloyed<br>so as not to melt before the stuff <br>gets delivered we pour cattle rivers windmills,<br>aborigines etcet into the sun which<br>however, grows stubbornly<br>smaller, paler. Finally<br>of course we run out of things to feed the thing,<br>start shipping ourselves. By now<br>all the planets-moons-asteroids and<br>so on have been shoveled in though they're<br>not doing much good it's<br>still looking pretty weak, heck, nothing helps!<br>Now the last few of us left lift off.<br>The trip seems forever but then, touchdown.<br>Just before entering we wonder,<br>will we be enough. There's<br>a last-second doubt in our minds: can we,<br>can this final sacrifice, our broughten crumb,<br>satiate<br>it--will a glutteral belch burst out then at last,--<br>and will that Big Burp be seen by far-off telescopes,<br>interpreted as a nova<br>by those other galaxies,<br>those further stars which have always seemed even more <br>starving <br>than ours?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bill+Knott">Bill Knott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351218" data-title="Feeding the Sun de Bill Knott" data-description="One day we notice that the sun needs feeding. Immediately a crash program begins: we fill rockets with wheat, smoke-rings, razorblades, then, after long aiming --they're off. Hulls specially alloyed so as not to melt before the stuff gets delive..."></div> </div> </div>

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