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POETRY CONTEST
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Thomas Cary Kinder
The Harder Task
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Plop a banana peel into the compost
and watch the fruit-flies scatter through the room.
The bucket is their world, all else, the moon
and Mars and distant planets that will host
them till they can return. What distant post
can we fly to when our world meets its doom-
when asteroid zooms in, or noxious plume
or dying sun turns earth to ice or toast?
It seems we have two tasks to undertake:
first, finding places that will serve as well,
and how to get there. That task is unnerving.
The next one's worse. Somehow we have to make
our life more worth the saving-learn to dwell
in kindness, purpose, beauty worth preserving.
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