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The Fisherman
Although I can see him still—
The freckled man who goes
To a gray place on a hill
In gray Connemara clothes
At dawn to cast his flies—
It’s long since I began
To call up to the eyes
This wise and simple man.
All day I’d looked in the face
What I had hoped it would be
To write for my own race
And the reality:
The living men that I hate,
The dead man that I loved,
The craven man in his seat,
The insolent unreproved—
And no knave brought to book
Who has won a drunken cheer—
The witty man and his joke
Aimed at the commonest ear,
The clever man who cries
The catch cries of the clown,
The beating down of the wise
And great Art beaten down.
Maybe a twelve-month since
Suddenly I began,
In scorn of this audience,
Imagining a man,
And his sun-freckled face
And gray Connemara cloth,
Climbing up to a place
Where stone is dark with froth,
And the down turn of his wrist
When the flies drop in the stream—
A man who does not exist,
A man who is but a dream;
And cried, “Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And passionate as the dawn.”
China authorizes coast guard to fire on Covid-19 virus
(Shanghai) The Chinese military has been given the green light to respond to suspected viruses in coastal waters today. Top brass here confirmed that missiles, torpedoes and artillery would be employed if foreign viruses breech the territorial waters of China.
Despite the reality that these zones are ever-changing and always disputed the development ads more fuel to the fire that has scorched diplomatic attempts at any solution since the 80s.
Meanwhile neighboring nations, such as Vietnam, have had far more success in dealing with Covid-19. China, along with the US, clearly botched early efforts to control the disease. Within the established culture of untruths and both countries have suffered the most when, according to leading health experts, the gruesome impact might have been diminished.
With many leaders the impulse to lie overwhelms the logic of telling the truth from the beginning. It is learned behavior and works very well as people from both Superpowers drift further and further into ignorance and lethargy.
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Canal Receives Over 40,000 Tape Measures
Sets Guinness Book of World Records Mark*
(Al Kibrit, Egypt)) Following the Ever Given fiasco last week, the Suez Canal Authority is in bumbling possession of some 40,000 tape measures of all sizes, styles and colors.
The tapes were sent by jokesters from all over the globe after a Panamanian-flagged container ship, the Ever Given, was wedged in the world’s major waterway for almost a week. Although it was not clear who might be to blame for the marooning, the Suez Canal Authority appears to be the scapegoat until other scapegoats can be defined, created and/or identified.
The 200,000-ton, Japanese-owned ship manned by an Indian crew, got cross-ways within the artificial conveyance on March 23 and tugboats, dredgers and salvage craft were employed to extricate it. Lost revenue from the traffic stoppage easily could reach $10 billion per day. The cost of the vessel’s liberation was estimated at “between ludicrous and preposterous.”
The container ship is as long as the Empire State Building is high or “damn big” as bystanders muttered in as many as 35 languages, as the dislodging took shape.
“We just needed another canoe-full of WD-40 and 3 imperial vats of Vasoline,” said one pilot. “We hope to bottle the stuff and become rich from the sales of our patent-pending Super Ever Given Salve. We might even add a little CBD and catch the new age traffic.”
*The Guinness award was etched in “miscellaneous category” for all posterity
Dall Moon Welcomes April
Bighorn sheep cluster up and moon motorists north of Ouray yesterday while simultaneously munching on new green that is popping up everywhere!
Biden to nationalize ski areas
(Ruby) Freshly elected President Joe Biden has asked Congress pass a bill calling for the nationalization of all ski areas by 2024. In so doing he keeps a campaign promise to subsidize recreation in the United States thus creating a fitter, more positive populace. The acquisitions would apply only to existing resorts currently licensed by the United States Forest Service.
“Our goal will not be to build seasonal hotels and condos,” said a spokesman for the White House. “We will build infrastructure and invest in alternative sources of energy right there on the slopes. We intend to make these resources profitable while lowering prices for families with an annual income of less than $100,000.”
The proposal received a cold shoulder when first unveiled at the Petit Snodgrass (Foie Gras) Summit last month.
Saying that since private operators are already camped on what is federal land, the transfer of the properties in question should go quite smoothly. The President did not elaborate when asked how the land would be used in the off-season nor was he willing to confront the knee-bending issue of snowfall possession/legal ownership.
Biden was captain of the ski team at the University of Hawaii according to adoring supporters interviewed outside the Capitol.
“Or maybe that was Barack Obama,” frowned one.
Geographically Challenged?
Boebert: “Those East Coast elites want to tell me how to behave. I won’t do it.”
Monitor: “But isn’t your hero, DonaldTrump from NYC?”
Boebert: “Well he’s not from the East Coast anymore. Don’t you listen to POX News? He moved to Florida.”
Lassie “Man in dog suit” says co-star
(Hollywood) The much beloved collie, that played Lassie in the popular TV drama, was actually not a dog at all, but a man in a dog suit, according to the show’s co-star, known only as Billy.
The clever fur disguise, which fooled millions of children back in the Fifties, was, according to the fugitive child star, a creation of a studio prop contingent that has mysteriously disappeared over the years. Despite a string of investigations their fate remains unclear. Relatives petitioned the police to continue the investigation into the strange disappearances but it was officially closed in 1973, the smell of foul play lingering in the air.
Billy has been under the protection of the federal gov’ment following testimony against Communist infiltrators in the infant TV industry. Many of the alleged un-American targets were later blacklisted. Accusations that cartoons were not real and that Black Beauty was actually a gelding all but overhauled early TV, and set precedent as to content for the next decade.
“If the forces of anarchy get a hold of Billy, now 60, it could be a blood bath,” said one television policeman. “We’re just proud of him for having the guts to tell the truth.”
– Rocky Flats
buttload: (obsolete, Britain, West Country) A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.