Page 129 - Dark Matter Issue5 Part II

(sings)

Sniffley was

And the world was, too

The most decent frog

Most beautiful place

We knew

Sniffley rose

And the world rose, too

Out of H2O. Ocean

River, lake, pond, womb

Give form

Sniffley asked

For nothing at all

He cocked his head

Listened, Dreamt, felt, caught bugs

Thought some

Sniffley was

A hop, a croak, a fall,

Nothing of him does remain

Life surrounding

(The last line is repeated twice more, with John, Uncle and Rebecca joining in.)

UNCLE: We shall retire to the funeral pyre.

Extreme Whether ends with an epilogue in which the choice confronting the

human race is starkly posed and Uncle reappears from the netherworld (as a god

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