I was drinking some Snapple peach diet ice tea when I looked under the bottle cap and discovered this truth on the underside. (Don't worry, I have not been paid by Snapple to mention their product in ths highly influential blog, although product placement in poetry is an interesting idea.)
Snapple Real Fact #911
A cubic mile of fog is made up
of less than one gallon of water.
Is it really surprising that so little substance
can cause so much confusion when a misplaced
comma can send soldiers to their deaths or
politicians can base a whole campaign on
a bumper sticker and a few little mis-dividing cells
among millions can bring the whole body down?
So many of us are so healthy except for the one
thing that kills us, like a cathedral collapsing
despite all the faith in the world because one buttress
is a few degrees off and the center cannot hold.
Snapple Real Fact #911
A cubic mile of fog is made up
of less than one gallon of water.
Is it really surprising that so little substance
can cause so much confusion when a misplaced
comma can send soldiers to their deaths or
politicians can base a whole campaign on
a bumper sticker and a few little mis-dividing cells
among millions can bring the whole body down?
So many of us are so healthy except for the one
thing that kills us, like a cathedral collapsing
despite all the faith in the world because one buttress
is a few degrees off and the center cannot hold.
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