and in the end...Archibald MacLeish

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The End of the World

Archibald MacLeish

 

Quite unexpectedly as Vasserot

The armless ambidextrian was lighting

A match between his great and second toe

And Ralph the lion was engaged in biting

The neck of Madame Sossman while the drum

Pointed, and Teeny was about to cough

In waltz-time swinging Jocko by the thumb-

Quite unexpectedly the top blew off:


And there, there overhead, there, there hung over

Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,

There in the starless dark the poise, the hover,

There with vast wings across the canceled skies,

There in the sudden blackness the black pall

Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all.

 


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