A Thousand Years

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A THOUSAND YEARS

In one thousand and eleven a seer had a vision

Which was received by everyone with laughter and derision.

For he declared 'In a thousand years men will have wings and fly;

They'll circle the earth in giant ships that will zoom across the sky!

Messages will fly through Space as quickly as a thought,

And moving pictures will appear of people playing sport!

All knowledge will be accessed by the pressing of a key,

And babies will be born without any clear paternity!'.......

He would have continued longer but they  burned him at the stake

For talking utter rubbish! That was a big mistake.

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In two thousand and eleven a seer had a vision.........

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(They tell me the seer also announced, before he dropped his clogs,

'Old ladies will get hours of fun by writing things called Blogs'.)

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SOOTHSAYER


People of old, before high tech, used to gaze up at the sky
And read the portents written there, way, way, way up high.
I went out one day last year and stood and sniffed the air,
Saying 'That's a very cold, windy sky that I see up there!'
And, sure enough, the very next day the wind began to blow,
And the air was thin and icy as though it were going to snow!
Of course, it never snows here, but it does up in the hills
And then we feel the aftermath which is bleak and full of chills.
So maybe I'm a mystic, whose words are always truth!
I'll curl up by the fire, I think, and practice saying sooth!
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