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I see, yes, black water. Like it, Hal. 2008/5/21 Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>: > On Passing Up $4.29 Gas at the Ohio-Indiana Border > > It's a matter of faith, you see . . . faith that > somewhere farther west gasoline will be cheaper > than here, faith that the gasoline left in our tank > > will hold out until then, will manage to get us there. > Faith is a funny business. When blind, it can lead us > into temptation and things much more dangerous. > > Like tarpits, for example, where we'd struggle to ex- > tricate ourselves until we were so weak that we'd just > topple over, our own weight pulling us down into > > the blackness of extinction. Faith is no laughing matter > when shove comes to push, when oil at two hundred > dollars a barrel will be just a fond memory, the image > > of that last filling station disappearing, fading, > shrinking to nothing in our rearview mirror. > > > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk