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# Atlas Reexamines
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/atlas-reexamines/
- Published: 2022-12-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Atlas, clever, got a lever, Archimedes' design. Now his shoulders, size of boulders are as free as yours and mine. "Why?" I asked him -- Zeus had tasked him and he answered, kind of smug: "Didn't plan it for the plane...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Atlas, clever, got a lever,  
Archimedes' design.  
Now his shoulders, size of boulders  
are as free as yours and mine.  
"Why?" I asked him -- Zeus had tasked him  
and he answered, kind of smug:  
"Didn't plan it for the planet.  
The capacity to shrug."