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Oct. 10th, 2002 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonlettuceApparently, it's National Poetry Day today, so I offer you these two thoughts from Piet Hein:
The Grasshopper's Grief
A grasshopper sat on a flagstone and wept
with a sorrow that few surpass.
He had painfully mastered his letters, and leaped
to a place where he knew some inscription was kept;
and it read and said:
Keep off the grass
and:
Nothing Is Indispensable
The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.
The Grasshopper's Grief
A grasshopper sat on a flagstone and wept
with a sorrow that few surpass.
He had painfully mastered his letters, and leaped
to a place where he knew some inscription was kept;
and it read and said:
Keep off the grass
and:
Nothing Is Indispensable
The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist.
