[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem

DR:
>(p.s. show me a ritchie a/c charging manifold with 1 hose in like new 
>condition!!!!
>and i'll show you a hoser in waiting
>http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tls/673214861.html)

Yes, Ritchie is a big name in refrigeration tools.  When I first started with 
Phil-Lit, I was hoping that David was a tool-connected Ritchie and that I might 
get a discount if I played my cards right.  I complimented everything he wrote. 
 But then he told me he wasn't related.  What a waste of good sycophancy.  

Anyway, let me advise David not to buy those gauges with one hose -- you need 
three -- but more importantly that's all so yesterday, so analog.  Now it's all 
digital.  You should be dreaming in digital.

check it out:
http://digi-cool.com/product_information/

if you truly want to be hip.

Mike Geary
Memphis
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John McCreery 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 6:51 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem


  David,


  Can you do one now about the stones that pop up under your spade or trowel 
three-quarters of the way toward the end of the row you are planting? So if you 
skip it, the row goes all scraggly. And, if you don't, it turns out to be so 
big that when, at last, you pull it out, you need a tree to fill the hole.


  John



  On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:14 AM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

    i know what my hatred of garden hoses could be understood to mean in
    freudian terms but i don't think that's quite it
    i hate garden hoses because
    when you are planting with a full head of steam up
    which is to say at twice the speed of sound
    sweat runs in rivulets down your brow
    and by the time the final task
    which is to add water
    soaking the translated roots
    by the time this hour comes around you are tired
    and it is exactly then that hoses will choose to python themselves around 
some jutting rock
    pretending to constrict it
    or they will flop over suddenly like a fish struggling to get free
    and kink
    or they will blow a washer at the business end and so deliver
    exactly the wrong force of water
    hoses are the tricksters of the garden
    belittling those who work with shovels
    calling them gandy dancers
    refusing by reference to the union
    to tap the damn well

    (p.s. show me a ritchie a/c charging manifold with 1 hose in like new 
condition!!!!
    and i'll show you a hoser in waiting
    http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tls/673214861.html)

    David Ritchie,
    Portland, Oregon

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