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The Terrorist

I lived in a block of service flats
Right next to a power grid,
The endless hum made my mind go numb
And infected all I did.
I couldn't sleep as the hum grew loud
At night, in the wind and rain,
Even the walls vibrated, and
They rattled the window-panes.

I pulled the pillow up over my head,
I tried sleeping upside down,
I rammed thick towels under the doors
Lay wide awake, and frowned.
I tried complaints to the Power Co.
Who laughed, and said, 'We'll see...
If anyone else complains, we might
Build a whole new facility! '

He grinned, and I took a poke at him
Right over the counter top,

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poem by David Lewis Paget
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Anchorless and Engulfed

Two who each other barely knew -
though both drew down delinquency
some streets apart, are past, and few
shall etch sketch wretched memory.
Two travelled on lines parallel
while wheeled real reel of history,
banned reel ran out span's tocsin bell
tolled once to tell eternity

‘Bonjour, ma mie, je t'aime, adieu! '
The mocking bird of Destiny
nests but a moment. All falls through
before each earth-bound entity
grasp pain's pain glass a second, spell
life's sensitivity to see
things in perspective ere Death's knell
engulfs hopes in Styx misery.

Confined upon Earth's ark our zoo
builds up its bars too readily.

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

quote by Chuck Close
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We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

quote by Bill Richardson
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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

quote by Stephen Gardiner
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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

quote by Martin C. Smith
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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

quote by Paul Vixie
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And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

quote by John W. Snow
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In a Pretty Pickle

Sweltering Bagdad: cold sweat dichotomy
between electricity grid lock
and green zone security block,
hot air surge in a pretty pickle.

(6 August 2007 robi03_1663_robi03_0000 XXX_JXX)

poem by Jonathan Robin
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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

quote by Richard Burr
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