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At height on a plastic box, / feet off earth, your hand / spanned that chromy globe
At height on a plastic box, feet off earth, your hand spanned that chromy globe
and
I wished it my neck, or head: my belt would have spun and hair risen too
but
you were just a model, a static example, a fifth period Van de Graaff statue
so
the class just chewed and there maybe was sun outside or a plane passing
which
both rather better spoke physics than these pitted benches; whiny apparatus, some statistic,
but
you were my sun albeit 93 million reasons I could only orbit
and
your celestial intake, your wild hair made you a juvenile godling, raising powers from friction
and
they wanted a volunteer to touch your finger, receive your bolt of puny lightning
and I
raised my hand, closed my eyes,
and got electrocuted at twenty millimetres.
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