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Spring and Fall
Monday, October 15th, 2007
This is one of my favourite poems. I’ve posted this before on the old version of the blog, but since that no longer exists, and since it is autumn, and since I haven’t posted anything since November, here it is again.
Spring and Fall, to a Young Child
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the [...] -
For Remembrance Day
Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
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Square One
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Lesson: when backing-up your computer for a full reintstall of the operating system, remember also to include your MySQL databases — including the one that contains all your blog material.
Needless to say, that is what I didn’t do. So, the old blog is no more. There are remnants of it out there in [...]