Hal,
Enjoyed this as far as it goes, but its site-specific location on an
educational campus yields neglect of the beach-master hippopotamus and the
seahorse possibilities. For example, check out an episode of the tv
show "Nature" entitled "Hippo Beach". Looking forward to a sequel.
Barry
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:59 -0400, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Sonnet: Adventures on the Hippocampus
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>Around noontime, we landed on the hippocampus, when squirrels
>were hungry, leaping from the tree branches down onto the arms
>of passersby, snatching away peanut butter sandwiches from them
>and biting, often, the hands that held them, snacks between classes.
>
>By lunchtime, we could usually no longer remember what we’d had
>for breakfast, and yet were almost certain that we had had something.
>Memories clouded by . . . well, by eleven o’clock at the latest, unless
>a skill at finding shortcuts helped us all become better taxi drivers.
>
>Subcortical inputs rushed around the campus—heads with their
>chickens cut off, by Talibansters with scimiters where their iPods
>should have been. Counterdemonstrations by Students Against
>Islamic Knowledge disrupted both pep rallies and frat hazings.
>
>But, by late afternoon, this often murky history has had its sense of
>relevance restored, on its way to class (Brachiation 101—elective).
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>Hal
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