Here comes some fun......

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Here comes some fun......

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This should separate the 'men from the boys' as near panic begins to set in with the approaching Nor'easter and its gift of significant snow accumulation-it is all people can talk about in the office today. In honor of its approach I am sharing this 'fun' poem by Clive James:

The Crying Need for Snow

It's cold without the softness of a fall
Of snow to give these scenes a common bond
And though, besotted on a viewless rime,
The ducks can do their standing-on-the-pond
Routine that leaves you howling, all in all
We need some snow to hush the whole thing up.

The ducks can do their flatfoot-waterfool
Mad act that leaves you helpless, but in fine
We need their footprints in a higher field
Made pure powder, need their wig-wag line
Of little kites pressed in around the pool:
An afternoon of snow should cover that.

Some crystalline precipitate should throw
Its multifarious weightlessness around
For half a day and paint the whole place out,
Bring back a soft regime to bitter ground:
An instant plebiscite would vote for snow
So overwhelmingly if we could call it now.

An afternoon of snow should cover that
Milk-bottle neck bolt upright in the slime
Fast frozen at the pond's edge, brutal there:
We need to see junk muffled, whitwashed grime,
Lean brittle ice grown comfortably fat,
A world prepared to take our footprints in.

A world prepared to our footprints in
Needs painting out, needs be a finer field:
So overwhelmingly, if we could call it now,
The fluffy stuff would prime it: it would yield
To lightest step, be webbed and toed and heeled,
Pushed flat, soothed off, heaped high, pinched anyhow,
Yet be inviolable. Put like that,
Gently, the cold makes sense. Snow links things up.

Happy shoveling and stay safe!!!!!
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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