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Article: SUNRISE.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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The Aztecs may not, after all, have been brutal
Though they believed the sun wouldn't rise
Unless the shrines of the sun god reeked with the odor
Of human blood. Maybe their notion of debt
Was stricter than ours. What could they pay the sun
For the priceless gift of corn but men and women
With their lives before them, young and happy?
As for a god who didn't expect repayment,
Who was happy to give as long as our species
Showed it was grateful, more a parent than lender --
That notion was no more rational than the other
And far less likely to explain disaster
Though in the long run it proved as practical
As other great ...
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