2025 NaPM 24 April

[dukealien]

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.

is hair raising.
Dante is sublime.

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Yes, grandma became a star.
Yes, daddy'll become a star.
Yes, mummy'll become one too.
And so will you
one day many many years away
I hope, when you are ninety five
with great grandchildren of your own.
Maybe you'll still think of me
like I always think of you.
Dawkins says it's just the selfish gene
from father to son and son and son
and that is how the race is run.
But maybe he's wrong,
Horatio, there’s more that lies unseen.
Perhaps the sky is just a big smokescreen
for what’s beyond.

And your poem is more than a little sublime, too.    Though the configuration may be an accident (the system does such things, concatenating posts entered one soon after the other) the Dante quote would make rather a nice title for the poem.