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SPACE AND PLACE
There is space and time continuum -
From here to spheres beyond dark Pluto
To hell and back through black holes;
There is extent, expanse and more:
While Earthlings - between two Poles
Migrate towards the torrid zones -
In split domains of country, land,
Of province, state, canton, shire -
Nations swarm, republics spawn,
Kingdoms come, and empires go.
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales ...
They are one, but they are four.
There is rural rustic man
Of the clods, of the sticks;
Provincial, pastoral, countrified,
Hickish, boorish, and farmerish.
There is urban, civic man
Of the suburbs, of the slums;
Burghal man hived in glass ....
Where nothing unobserved can pass.
Location, situation, and place,
Some strike root, plant themselves.
Some drop anchor, hang their caps,
Set up house, settle down.
Displaced, misplaced, dislocated,
Some are square pegs in round holes:
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