From: williamgwilliams@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 4:42:50 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:   
   > On Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:08:04 AM UTC-8, Willie wrote:    
   > > On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:55:01 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:    
   > > > Dot: A Response (Ho...Ho...Ho)    
   > > > Cancel Culture...🐾    
   > > > Alt. Title: EpiDot    
   > > >    
   > > > And as the beating Sun reigns relentless down…    
   > > > Merciless to Man's unharnessed petty folly...    
   > > > The pouring stinging rays like March's lion roar...    
   > > > Hark, Proteus rising blows his Conquering Horn…    
   > > > Come creeping winter tides as cruel as April's bitter Hail...    
   > > > Lashing down like slavery whips upon the wretched rocks...    
   > > > Rolling over on his History’s magnificent mickle mysteries...    
   > > > Washing away what once was thought to be....    
   > > > Ocean's mad laugh at ant-like Man's pretense, preposterous hubris...    
   > > > These sandcastles crumbling on god’s golden sinking shores.…    
   > > > The steps to light the way once fair now gone...    
   > > > Sweating all that flesh doth dandy do perspire....    
   > > > Alas, the man remains again no more....    
   > > > Barn Hope has left in high Noon's drowning darkness...    
   > > > Stingy Scrouge returned to Scrouge's stingy Source...    
   > > > And Elvis…..has left the building.    
   > > Inspired! Thank you.   
   > thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?   
   > > (I had to look up "mickle.")   
   > i was looking for a word which rhymed with pickle! ;-)   
   > Tom Friedman ended his long NY Times piece on Glasgow a couple of weeks ago   
   with this:    
   > >    
   > > Two planets are talking to each other. One looks like a beautiful blue   
   marble and the other a dirty brown ball.    
   > > “What on earth happened to you?” the beautiful planet asks the brown   
   one.    
   > > “I had Homo sapiens,” answers the brown planet.    
   > > “Don’t worry,” says the blue planet. “They don’t last long.”   
   > thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?   
   By "inspired" I just mean feeling the muse. Transported.    
      
   I dream probably as much as the next person, but I almost never remember my   
   dreams. Sometimes I'll wake Susan up and say, "I just had the weirdest dream,"   
   and she'll ask, "What was it?" And usually I'll say, "I totally forget." But   
   last night I had a    
   dream, part of which I remember. Not sure what led up to it, but I was on a   
   beach on the Gulf of Mexico with Arnold Cisco, a childhood friend whom I   
   haven't seen it 60 years, who suggested we kill a water cow. "A water cow?" I   
   said. "Yeah, there are some    
   out there, I'll bet." We got into a little boat and went out a ways, and   
   darned if I didn't see a black and white Holstein-like cow (same spotting as   
   my dog Gracie) swimming about quite far out from us. Arnold said, "You gotta   
   stab them a few times, then    
   hold on to their tail as they swim off to die." And darned if Arnold didn't do   
   just that when we got up to the cow. And that's when I woke up, with Arnold   
   clinging to the poor cow's tail as it swam off.    
      
   Then, just now, I had this vague memory of a recent conversation, with whom I   
   don't remember, about cows swimming. Might have been when we were talking   
   about that "Power of the Dog" movie, which got us onto the subject of cattle.   
   I don't remember with    
   whom I had that conversation. I'll bet I do, though, at some point. Maybe I'll   
   call the people I've been with lately and ask them if we talked about cows   
   swimming.    
      
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