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"Rifts between generations became more pronounced, threatening their pre- consumerist idyll." What a three line! On 4/22/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sonnet: At the Treeline > > Exacerbated trees lined up along the far horizon, > spelling defeat for the nearby townspeople, ready > at last to speculate openly on their failure to elect > competent ministers and sheriffs and deputies. > > Dismantling the silences around them, voluntary > amnesiacs filled in missile silos and adjacent > barns, as though no one were out there to threaten > them, their way of life. Rifts between generations > > became more pronounced, threatening their pre- > consumerist idyll. Yet still, we take our daily > bowlful of lies and, adding milk and a sprinkling > of sugar, force it down. Leaflets fell from the trees. > > The sky above, as hostile as ever, its deep blue > more incongruous with each passing moment. > > > > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org >