<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Something There is. . <b class="">.</b> </span><i class=""> with a nod to Robert Frost</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> i</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">from space it must appear</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a curious laceration</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">or arbitrary line of demarcation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">from where we stand the earth’s</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">excoriated an eight-lane thoroughfare</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">over-riding tribal burial lands</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">cactus forests newly hacked--</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">endangered organ pipes reduced to trash</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">are bound for burning </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">observe up close the rank intruder </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a man-made structure a false geography</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">at odds with mother nature</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a monstrous centipede industrial </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">composed of angled steel </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and half the height of the pentagon</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">upright appendages proliferate </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">breaking the daylight into bars</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">contrived to thwart the so-called aliens </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">armored gates at intervals appear</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">with fool-proof codes case-hardened locks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">emblems of invincibility and dominion</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">stony eyes on soaring stalks explode the night as</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">desert dwellers-- deer coyote ocelot</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">search in vain for their abrupted watering holes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Stand back my friend surveilling sensors</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">shriek and shred the silence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">since you dared to lay a hand</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">dusty pick-up trucks descend </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">men in hard hats bearing down</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">to question our intentions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> ii</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> what glory is there in this artless art to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> warrant the ostentatious autograph</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> of a presidential pen</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> what is the cost to humankind</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> to carry out what is begun</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Can we surmount these barricades</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> or will this political theater be </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> reckoned as a national shame</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> a failure of empathy and reason in our time</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Let history declare once and for all --</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""> Something there is </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""> that doesn’t love</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""> a wall</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- b. armstrong</div></div></body></html>