Commentary
Stray Blooms
What if you wrote you are God’s elect, self-chosen
to bring order into a “new world,”
settled by natives seen as stray commas,
or apostrophes, in illiterate forests, a wilderness
hostile to your godly virtues of order and control,
a wilderness whose trees you fell to make
your home?
What if the few who traveled on the “sweet ship”
Mayflower,
Bring Back The Game
Sooner or later we’ll kick the bucket, buy the farm, push up the daisies, be hauled away in wooden pajamas or whatever. While waiting, there is a free service you just may want to consult, and then again you may not. Developed a decade or so ago, the original now has a number of rivals. Named The Death Clock or something similar, all are easily located on the Internet and each will project day, month and year of — your death!
We started off early this morning, to get our long awaited flu shots which were scheduled from 8 a.m. until noon. This had been on our calendar for weeks, during which time we tried not to get a cold, or anything else that could prevent our being there for it. We were rude to our friends; if they so much as sneezed we said go away.
ERRORS AND OMISSIONS
Editors, The Vineyard Gazette:
The report of the Chilmark selectmen’s meeting in the Nov. 6 Gazette should have been titled “Reporter’s Errors and Omissions.” This story supposedly focused on my request that the selectmen reconsider their decision for the training rather than the removal of the dog that killed our little Yorkie.