Damn! My stuff never goes far enough.
Hal
"To go is to go farther."
--Kenneth Koch
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On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> 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
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> wrote:
>
>> Sonnet: Adventures on the Hippocampus
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hal
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