the neighbors must have asked, but Noah shrugged
so done with advertising what he planned.
He used to socialize, 'til he got mugged
but now he's sure they'll never understand.
The voices coming to him in the night--
insisting he must make this box his home--
would only cause the doomed to fret and fight;
the dreams were meant for him, and him alone.
A later prophet'd warn Assyria
that God did not approve their errant ways
but Noah'd let the folk of Ninevah
go blithely to their fiery end of days.
within his generation, Noah's best.
But Avraham did better by his guest.
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