ASTRONOMIC JOSH

By: HILOBROW
May 29, 2012

When Joshua, that warrior bold, said to the sun, “stand still,”
And hypnotized the frisky moon with a forensic trill;
Astronomy was not embraced within his mental girth,
Or he would have addressed his spiel to the revolving earth.

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Unsigned poem, titled “Astronomic Josh,” from The Philistine (“A Periodical of Protest,” November 1908)

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