Paul Hartal Poems

The B-29 superfortress took off at 3: 47 A.M.
from the island of Tinian,
an American airbase in the Pacific Ocean.
It was August 9,1945, a Thursday.
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The number
of syllables
in the title
yields format.
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The Swiss sculptor, painter and poet Alberto Giacometti
was born in 1901 in the village of Borgonovo,
on the Italian border.
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One day the mailman brought me a letter
from California. It said that the Earth was flat.
What? Was I misled by my teachers? Was the idea
of a round earth nothing but goverment propaganda?
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Late night of every Monday
I immigrate into Tuesday.
But I cannot stop yonder.
So I move to Wednesday.
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In the spring of 1931 Will Durant sent a long letter
to Bertrand Russell. It included the assertion:
“The greatest mistake in history was
the discovery of truth”, because truth has neither
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Your body is not You.
Your thoughts are not You.
Your mind is not You.
Your feelings are not You.
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