<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shield Bugs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was assiduous<br>organizing my collection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had you not been told<br>what they were, <br>you might have thought<br>they were trees and stars, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or an orchard, <br>a small one of nine large trees, <br>three to a row, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or a large one of forty-five small conical trees<br>in nine groups of five, <br>three to a row, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or, taking part in a contest<br>to find the largest possible number of trees, <br>you could add the two together<br>and have fifty four<br>and think you had them all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some bright spark, <br>a contestant, <br>got the idea to replace the lot with wind turbines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone was sure the turbines had been there<br>before the shield bugs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another, threw theory into chaos: <br>while agreeing that<br>a tree can be made of stars, <br>he also asserted, <br>a star can be made of trees! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within a steady state of coexistence<br>each possibility pulsed<br>in and out of sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Douglas+Scotney">Douglas Scotney</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=369490" data-title="Shield Bugs de Douglas Scotney" data-description="I was assiduous organizing my collection. Had you not been told what they were, you might have thought they were trees and stars, or an orchard, a small one of nine large trees, three to a row, or a large one of forty-five small conical tr..."></div> </div> </div>

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