> Retrospective Sonnet
What if that swing vote on the Supreme
Court had swung the other way?
Keep 'swinging' Hal!
This is fun - except the part about getting the impossible kid into the good
school. I been there. And that's no fun at all.
Stephen V
>
> Our breakfast was ruined. We worried about whether or not
> we might have won had not the Chinese intervened. Our push
> to the Yalu River fell into disarray while we were waiting
> for the milk to pour upon our cereal, cream for our cup of coffee.
>
> And what if the British had not been preoccupied with Napoleonic
> wars on the continent of Europe, what then? What if two oceans had
> not protected us for all those years while we struggled to build our
> nation, our empire, our city on the hill? What if the hunters had not
>
> come out of the forest, what then? And, as if the past were not enough
> to worry about, the future brought even more worries to our breakfast
> table. What if the kids, the children, proved impossible to domesticate,
> impossible to place into schools that would assure them a future we
>
> might have wanted for ourselves? What if that swing vote on the Supreme
> Court had swung the other way? What might have happened then?
>
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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