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Light Showers

The Old Recycling Controversy

(A Kind of Double Dactyl*)

Reincarnation is
Not justifiable;
Here-again-gone-again
Dogma's decriable.

Millions of Hindus think
Karma is viable;
They are convinced they are
Transmogriphiable!


* The double dactyl is a rigorous form of playful verse in which most of the eight lines are composed of two dactyls (the meter in "higgledy piggledy"). One of the lines in the second quatrain must be composed of a single word. I observed those requirements in this experiment; but I violated a couple of others, so this is not a genuine double dactyl.


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