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Poetry: Futility

The trouble with writing for Helium
Is that it's not a very good dealium,
Involves a great deal of tedium,
That good writing there is at a premium
So you'll end up in a delirium
And never win a prize nobelium.

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Poetry: Futility

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    The ambiguity of futility.

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    Diverted river, streaming into sorrow,
    dries in vain with rain
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