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# Atlas Is Shrugging
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/atlas-is-shrugging/
- Published: 2025-02-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: What happens - when a tired titan shrugs - to planets that are resting on his shoulders?
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

What happens - when a tired titan shrugs -  
to planets that are resting on his shoulders?

Their denizens - by volume, mostly bugs,  
those organized, by genus, into folders,  
are bound to coin a phrase for the occasion:  
"The Earth, it moved for me. You felt it too?"

While others, of a different persuasion,  
will shrug it off themselves, like much ado,  
and claim the planet's resting on a turtle,  
no, not at all the shoulders of a man,  
however virile, vigorous, or fertile,  
no man can stand alone, stick to the plan,  
and use big words, like struggling and fightin'.

Though secretly, they wish to be the titan.