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Treading on thin lines Like a marginal ropewalker A lively rosalia Imitates the chains of population And a farandola Is forced to associate With septuplets. Grapes and fapes And berries and cherries Are often used in wine While the stronger stuff Will bear no fruit But would rather Base its structure on grain. A foundation falters when The edifice Is too Tall And that is why there are building codes And yet laws may be broken And in such disasters Man's fate will tumble like a hippopotamus on ice.
— Zumwalt (1974)