Notes from underground

Growing up,

we had a foxhole in our backyard.

Several of them, actually.

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I was always very curious

and checked them many times

for atheists. But no luck.

Not one was to be found.

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All I could find was a family of cute foxes.

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Suffering

the

long

dark

night

of the

soul.

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The jockey

I saw an old horse jockey

riding a carousel

and I asked him,

“Is it as it was?”

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The old jockey just smiled

a jockey smile, and said,

“This is as far as I ever got.”

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At his words,

the carousel

began its slow finish.

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And the old jockey

leaned back on his horse

and said,

“Whoa.”

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Merch of time

Growing up, all of us kids

knew the stories of the

ghostly Lady in White.

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The Lady in White was said

to roam the woods near

our house and surprise hikers

by jumping out from behind

a tree and firing a

t-shirt gun at their head.

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As the legend goes, the hikers

would be found days later,

pale, hungry, shivering and

wearing a t-shirt that read:

“I got surprised by the Lady in White.”

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of canned  Spaghetti-O’s

in the West?

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when you get there,

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And if they ask you

who George is — tell ’em,

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“A beautiful, beautiful man.”

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Firewater65 has written a

poem in the spirit of Trefology.

And I, for one, am here to say,

“It’s about time somebody did.”

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