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The Old Observatory

While engrossed in utter fascination
By their mandibles’ moist mastication,
I found my ears getting slowly attuned
To the language in which those creeps communed,

And was shocked to hear the odd English word
Coming through chatter otherwise absurd:

Names of people and places—even slang,
Voiced with an extraterrestrial twang.

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