[lit-ideas] Re: Ridgeback Being and Time
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:50:01 +0900
This poem resonates with me. Recently spent a couple of months in Cambridge,
MA, sharing space with two Great Danes as well as two grandkids.
John
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Some time ago when I was
>
> Feeling weak with a damaged
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> Arm and my Ridgeback
>
> Girls were willful and strong
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> I thought about a time
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> When one of them would age
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> And be gone and I might . . .
>
>
>
> I wasn’t sure what I might,
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> But thought small – a smaller
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> Ridgeback existence – learning
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> Small ones existed in Oregon.
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> I told my son who in a burst of
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> Essential sonness promised
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> To drive however far I wished.
>
>
>
> Since then my girls have grown
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> More considerate and I have
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> Strengthened my arm and my son
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> Has lost his Jeep and now drives
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> An old Toyota with a weak battery
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> Or bad alternator or something else
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> Electrical and stays mostly at home.
>
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John McCreery
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