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From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 05:08:19 -0600
Fwd Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 10:28:05 -0500
Subject: Alfred's Odd Ode #223

Apology to MW #223 (For February 14, 1998)

Your girl or your son or your wife or your mom -- or even dear
trusted old dad. But someone you trusted for balance, you know;
one whose foundations weren't bad. Someone whose flag really went
to the top; _you_ thought that their suitcase was full. No bats
in their belfries, their bottles were corked; they were with-it
and centered and cool.

And they don't watch the telly, and they've been to good schools,
the X-files, and star treks are fun but thought silly. They are
solid, substantial, and worthy of trust; they are honest,
forthcoming, and quite often brilliant.

You have years with these people, and they stood to be counted;
they were covered, and focused, and current. They'd been there
when needed, never talk of impeachment -- goodness =85 efficacious,
and recurrent. Cliched, I report they were salt of the earth,
proud pillars of community -- they are kind and they're smart,
and all have good hearts -- =85Then -- <disjunct =85> (slow despair
(?)) =85 And, a _new_ continuity.

Oh, they're still the same, not to blame (not insane) -- they're
undamaged, they're together, they're OK. Embarrassed, ashamed,
and taking the blame, they can still fill the bill, write the
check -- save the day! They're the same, don't complain, but the
fact still remains the reports that they make -- the results of
their claims=85 !!!

They say =85that they're taken away in huge ships; they say that
they're prodded and poked and then stripped. Then they're probed
to emission, examined it seems, and it matters, or not, how they
reason or scream.

They make this *vast* admission while they look down on the
ground apologetic and consoling that indeed =85 it all went down.
Then they look into your eyes, and you can see what they've been
seeing, and you wonder what the future holds for wretched human
beings.

Lehmberg@snowhill.com

Horatio really didn't have a clue, did he? There really _was_
more to heaven and Earth than was contained in a pitiably
incomplete philosophy, wasn't there? We truly miss a boat when we
turn from these people, don't we?

They may be preceding us into some new real time paradigm, and we
should be giving them some open minded attention.

~~~~

I was raised on the chicken little story -- you know, the one
where a baby chicken gets hit on the head with an acorn, and then
panics the farm community to some kind of catastrophe and
disaster with the false warning that the "sky is falling."

I thought that the moral was to keep your mouth shut regarding
what's outside your experience, the consequences of inciting a
panic, and that your fears are likely so much bullshit, anyway =85
but I've come to believe that it means more than that. It means
one must take pains to be sure, somehow, that there is in fact
some problem with the sky, and then discover the answer to a more
difficult, underlying, and basic question =85  how does one make a
_credible_ warning if the sky really _is_ falling?

Free John Ford.

~~~
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