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From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 08:11:07 -0600
Fwd Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 13:56:14 -0500
Subject: Alfred's Odd Ode #104

Apology to MW #104 (For March 9, 1997)=20

I=92m reminded that skeptics are people too,
Fraught with the ills that ail all of us.
They want a *just* comfort, and a reason to smile;
Like me, wanting to =91grok=92 this whole omnibus.

Perhaps, but then it is easily remembered
That I once thought as they think, still.
Then I picked up new books, and I had a long look,
. . .Found their arguments convenient, and shrill.

Shrill in the knowing that they=92re specious;
Shrill in suspicion that they=92re wrong;
Shrill as they fight with their denial;
Shrill that their position isn=92t strong.=20

			~

They don=92t _know_ that they=92ve been lucky!
Wasn=92t hemp grown in Kentucky?
Eden=92s treasure spot, they live in out of sin?

But the *treasure* has a price
And then you find you aren=92t so nice=20
When your comfort comes from pockets sick and thin.

			~

You reminded that these _are_ my fellow people . . .
Who I live amongst, and who I count among my friends. . .
Many I depend on for _my_ comfort!
And with this group I must retire, and make amends. . .?

Then I remember their *take* on the world.=20
I remember their scared whine to make confined
Our study of science to *safe* mainstream modes --
To *old* science that=92s "doing just fine."

Fine, in the sense that it backs _them_ up.
Fine, that it floats _their_ wide boat.
Fine, that it=92s rules _they_ are happy with.=20
Fine, if I hung from their rope <g>.
		=09
			~

They don=92t _know_ why they=92ve been lucky!
Wasn=92t hemp milled in Kentucky?
A treasure spot to live in with your kin?

But the *treasure* has a price
And then you find you aren=92t so nice=20
When your comfort comes from pockets poor and thin.

			~

I say again, these _are_ my people,
And from their loins I=92ve sprung.
I owe them, in fact, all that I have!
Truly, and much of what I=92ve done!

But, then I remember the facts I=92ve recovered.
And the news that is coming up, just now!
It wasn=92t so true what was taught to believe!
And a truth that should smile is a frown.

A frown at the bigot elected to office.
A frown at a Christian who hates.
A frown at a man who despoils our freedom.
A frown at the skeptic in cyberspace.
		=09
			~

They don=92t know how they=92ve been lucky!
Hemp _was_ grown in Old Kentucky!
That treasure spot they live in  -- pay no rent!

But the *treasure* had a price
And then you found you weren=92t so nice=20
When your comfort came from pockets sad and thin.

			Lehmberg@snowhill.com

If the skeptics keep distracting me like they are, I=92m never gonna get
to all the good stuff at the "twenty first green". There is _wonderful_
stuff out there to explore =96 and it=92s not the same old crap.  It=92s
positive! It even smells pretty =96 but, one has too eat the broccoli
before one can eat the dessert. That=92s the principle of Premack. . . =20

Oh =96 someone asked what could "possibly" be wrong with bananas. . .

~ To keep the blemishes off of them (not grown in America, there are
*short cuts* that can be taken) the bananas are sprayed with so much
mercury it can be seen running in little quick-silver rivers at the tree
bases. The people that have to _live_ there take this stuff into their
bodies where it. . . well, look up mercury poisoning on line =96 it=92s not
a pretty picture. Hey! What could be more wholesome than a banana =96 eh?
"Hey mom! Could we have some more bananas"?  Oh yeah. . . and the banana
growers stiff _these_ people on medical assistance, too, and _these_
people just dwindle to drooling, retarded dust. . .But we got some fat
bananas, and they=92re pretty =96 slice one up in your cereal (another
interesting story)!

How about something else wholesomely American? How about our American
Caesar, Norman Schwarztkopf!=20

Just tell the damn truth, General! Though the heavens fall, or the mark
drops from Cain. . .do what you would have commanded from me!

"An officer will not lie, cheat or, steal." =96 even if it means he can=92t
be president, or adored by millions, General.


--=20
"I cleave the heavens, and soar to the infinite. What others see from
afar, I leave far behind me." - Giordano Bruno, while burning at the
fundamentalist's stake for knowing who God really is.