Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind, Not

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pity this busy monster, manunkind,
 not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
 your victim (death and life safely beyond)
 plays with the bigness of his littleness
 --- electrons deify one razorblade
 into a mountainrange; lenses extend
 unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
 returns on its unself.
 A world of made
 is not a world of born --- pity poor flesh
 and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
 fine specimen of hypermagical
 ultraomnipotence. We doctors know
 a hopeless case if --- listen: there's a hell
 of a good universe next door; let's go
 E. E. Cummings
 

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Duration
01:10
Key
2
Tempo
132 BPM

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