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George Duke wrote on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 11:07 PM UTC:
Both correct, broadly speaking, well simile wins. The ''double rhymes'' are hard. Battered by rockets, scattered in pockets. Perish the notions, cherish the motions. They would be written out with other interesting rhymes month or year before finding a use. Similarly, I had ''The Glowth'' to replace The Big Bang, too late to enter after 'Sky & Telescope's' contest in 1993. Judges Carl Sagan and Hugh Downs rejected all 13,000 entries and Big Bang sticks. I would enter The Glowth if they ever hold it again and finally published the Glowth 2003 in Poem XI ''Pleiadic Dialogue,'' the one right before this one. It might stand a chance. What would you name the Big Bang -- which after all Fred Hoyle came up with derisively in 1949? It was a serious year-long contest pre-Internet days. Hoyle's and others' Steady State had equal billing through the 1950's until physicists found the cosmic background radiation.

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