There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
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Yeah, I saved a copy of that one also. One of Scott’s better ones.
There was a great short video a couple of years ago, “The Boyfriend that didn’t use Social Media” (or something like that). She’s talking to her girlfriends about the new guy she’s going out with; he’s funny, and good looking, has a job, they have a lot of interests in common. But! He doesn’t use social media.
So for one thing, she can’t snoop into his social history because (online) he doesn’t have one.
One of friends is having trouble grasping the concept and asks “But how does he send you pictures of his dick?” (John-that’s a thing?) The girl replied, “I’ve only seen his dick, when I see his … dick”.
All, “Ew!”.
Follow up, I put this onto the OT at Instapundit last night and an hour later someone flagged it as Spam and got it deleted by the commenting engine.
Really? This offended some little cupcake?
Came by to see if there were any follow up comments to my second comment and my second comment is gone???
Anywho, I posted this cartoon last night on Instapundit and someone didn’t like it, reported it as s,Pa,m and it’s gone.
Why? Didn’t seem that controversial to me.
The quirks of the spam catcher are many and mighty. I try to check things over but sometimes it takes me a long time to get around to it.
Ah! The second comment had the word s P / M in it. I found that on Disqus using that word triggers the (you know what filter) also.