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   John Brockbank to All   
   Re: The World to Bee   
   26 Jan 07 17:53:49   
   
   From: wagley@screaming.net   
      
   "SWG"  wrote in message   
   news:1169816436.961603.243450@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...   
   > Please bear with me and my extreme vanity to submit to you my profane   
   > reflections and feelings:   
   >   
   >   
   > The World to Bee   
   >   
   > Stung by an idea,   
   > head hurts much less   
   > than stung by a wasp   
   > at cost of its sudden death:   
   >   
   > To hurt or to be hurt?   
   > the wasp or the bee?   
   > what is the question?   
   > To be or the tree?   
   >   
   > To pollinate is the idea   
   > the apple on the tree   
   > that falls onto Darwin's head!   
   > Without wasp or bee, the theory was not to be!   
   >   
   > Hence no bee, no inspiration!   
   > that led to timekeeping's precision,   
   > the discoveries shaping today's world,   
   > where Hamlet's "to bee or not to bee"   
   >   
   > got so far misspelled   
   > that we forgot about the bee,   
   > the snake, the apple and the tree   
   > and created the whole mess   
   >   
   > where, I must confess,   
   > whether wasp eat meat   
   > or wife is WASP   
   > overshadow the simple fact   
   >   
   > that without bee pollinate   
   > and we hastily clean our planet   
   > no mankind, nor primate   
   > shall survive and proliferate.   
   >   
   > Left to the world of insects   
   > to raise again to mankind   
   > no more dreams shall organise the World,   
   > replaced by ants' perfect system of scent!   
   >   
   > He who beats around the bush   
   > in arrogant disrespect of the bee   
   > pollinate all the flowers for the apple   
   > to fall off the tree, leads us to that sorry kind of Fate.   
   >   
   > A watchmaker, the witness of Time,   
   > a poet without proper rime,   
   > and timeless born philosopher,   
   > has a vision of some better kind of State:   
   >   
   > Thus, the real answer to Hamlet's fateful Question   
   > Is "Respect the Wasp and the Bee:   
   > without the Apple falling off the Tree,   
   > there is no more any kind of Monkey to Be".   
   >   
   > "The World to Bee"   
   > - copyright 2007 by SWG -   
   > reproduction strictly limited to Men and Women (who) like Me! :-)   
   >   
      
   That is not bad if you don't mind me saying so.  A poem with humour is nice   
   to read.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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