METACROSTIC #2: Quote
#2: Backup Clues
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A. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 31 169 101 16 205 119 177
Can you tell me how we got here,
Or where we got our features;
Did our consciousness just plop here,
And are we randomly formed creatures?
B. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 197 90 28 47 212 135 63 12 77 173 233 112 147 140 41 179
When Copernicus was finished
He'd dealt this notion quite a blow.
But if our role is thus diminished
For whose benefit is the show?
C. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 30 2 122 86 99 159 55 64 224 155 17
If you rub my feet, I'll rub yours
This knowledge notwithstanding,
'Cause all my aches and pains and sores
Upon my sole I'm landing.
D. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 80 120 35 193 145 22 198
Those flamin' Roman religious dudes
Would prance around the forum.
They'd wear these funny hats and shoes.
It's best just to ignore 'em.
E. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 50 11 183 156 111 165 82 176 226 29 106 214
I'm in the key of C, (I moan)
And nothing could be finer
Than to join me on your cacaphone
And do so in D minor.
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An old nomadic merchandiser,
a Nebajoth eastern Jew.
He would sharpen his incisor
And bite off more than he could chew.
G. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 117 46 37 167 74 97 23 186 146 8 234 58 110
These states don't seem like much at first
But look before you leap.
You might be dead of heat and thirst
Or simply fast asleep.
H. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 36 137 21 203 4 98 123
To err is human, so they say,
But wouldn't it be divine,
If we could shift the blame and pay
The piper over time.
I. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 202 181 5 239 87 32 178 51 229 138 172
If you want a life that's sunny
Than I really think you should
Perform the act of placing money
Where it'll do you the most good.
J. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 148 59 184 10 96 162 124 1 175 164
If for enlightenment you are bound,
Then I doubt most folks would mind it
If at first you looked around.
Cherchez la route, and you shall find it.
K. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 56 217 70 187 109 18 24 223 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 102 211 85 170 67 200 144 237 118
He scoffs at all the daily chores
Snickers, snorts and doesn't do 'em.
She hires a maid, whom he ignores
Until her invoice socks it to him.
L. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 89 20 105 131 33 6 220 88 54
I once was on the dole
And life was grand, or so it seemed.
Now I play a different role;
If life's a bitch, it's cause I'm weaned.
M. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 230 139 204 15 45 163 171 57 121 3
Some people will eat any dish
That comes on down the pike.
Fresh water is all that I wish;
And sharp tastes that I like.
N. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 213 19 215 66 108 73 152 127 196 49 81 216
Bend the elbow; pop the cork.
To improve the wine you mull it.
The captain's grog, a bit of pork
The whole lot -- in your gullet.
O. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 180 227 95 75 13 209 62 235 39
With artists looming right and left
There's nothing new and witty.
Try covering the warp with weft
You can still make something pretty.
P. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 14 192 34 153 48 134 92 199 68 185
You say this job's a breeze, so far?
After this clue you'll be liable
To find your patience won't go far.
So search for solace in the Bible.
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Not a cloud was to be seen,
Not an airplane, moon or star.
The air was just an open screen,
Reflecting what you think you are.
R. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 132 190 160 60 40 210 103 222 113
When placing any requisition
With those shining in the skies,
Your local status and position
Account for nothing in their eyes.
S. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 207 150 27 76 141 182 52 231 125 157 115 194 228 84 236 25
From dwarves and brides and brothers
We have learned most providentially,
That as regards our inmost druthers
We can count our sins sequentially.
T. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 174 93 126 136 43 208 133
Without the rules we wouldn't care if
Folks would plunder, rape and pillage.
In the absence of a sheriff
There'd be more riff-raff and swillage.
U. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ 26 195 218 44 107 116 130 61 128 191 151
What causes our decisions
To be temporary or permanent,
Might depend on the conditions
On both sides of the firmament.
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The first of those who manned the booth,
Tought love, repentence and redemption.
Now most of them are long of tooth
And provide, at best, a tax exemption.
© 1996 Arthur Bloch