"Theodore Sturgeon - Fluffy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sturgeon Theodore)

Fluffy poised himself on the windowsill. "So you'd be blamed for it," he said, and laughing nastily, he
leaped out and disappeared in the gray morning.




On a Weird Planet
By STANTON A. COBLENTZ
They said Inferno was the planet's name,тАФ
A waste of sprouting crimson barred with black,
Where towers and palisades were sucked by flame,
And fields erupted in the red attack.

There, in the rocket-vomiting sooty gloom,
Bewildered thousands, frail as ants upturned,
Staggered, and ran, and staggered; pitched to doom,
Or prayed and muttered while their homesteads burned,

And roar of bombs and mortars jarred the ears.
And drone of flying dragons; screams of pain;
While fiery whirlwinds tore at all frontiers,
And sane men grappled with the clawed insane.

Inferno was the planet's name, they said.
Then weird this tale: that under warm blue skies
Once children laughed, and lovers merrily wed,
And poets, moonstruck, sang of paradise.