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A World Lit Only by Double-A Batteries 1
A fashionable square plastic tick-tock clock
A pocket flashlight, a little radio
Hurricane lanterns positioned against the storms
The innards of bleep-bleeping smoke alarms
A police-scanner, toys, remote controls
Clever little sphygmomanometers
Bedtime book lights, magnifying glasses
Bubba-cap headlamps, tiny little fans
How many uses! Let us count the ways 2 -
Against the darkness flinging our double-A’s
1 Cf. A World Lit Only by Fire, William Manchester
2 Cf. Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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