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The Saliva Tree by Brian Aldiss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novella
I've heard that fish in hell can breathe the ocean flow;
That schools of perch can't even take to sky. I know—
It's just a fable told as night's periphery
Encroaches near the campfire's bright epiphany.
The goats that navigate the starry sky at night
In packs that graze the floating brush and bleat delight
Inspired this trip to verify the old man's sooth.
It's why I took you here inside this ancient booth.
The corridors are mercilessly stone and steel
And built by demons lacking nature's love-appeal.
They worshiped here inside this awful sanctum-nook:
If hell exists it lives inside this picture book.
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