COLD COMFORT

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COLD COMFORT

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When life on this planet seems cumbersome

and weighted with serious magnitude,

delight dragged down by deep opprobrium,

I pad into the kitchen for some food.

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In front of the refrigerator, I

see tacked with tacky magnets your sweet face,

in photographs that we took last July,

and what was crushing becomes an embrace.

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All the gravity of Earth seems flimsy,

its unyielding force demonstrably soft,

when refrigerator magnets’ whimsy

can anchor cheerful memories aloft.

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Cold comfort may sound like a paradox,

but nourishment’s on both sides of this box.

 

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James Ph. Kotsybar's haiku achieved Martian orbit on September 22, 2014, becoming the first literature to another world, aboard NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. His poem, "Martian Connoisseur" has been circling the Red Planet for over 1,000 Earth days, however, Guinness Book of World Records, the Nobel Committee and Pulitzer Prize Directors have yet to weigh in on this record accomplishment. More information on MAVEN is available from https://mars.nasa.gov/maven/