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03 August 2021

Chimingly.

Pacheco, Gin and Tonic, 1969


SYMPATHY in WHITE MAJOR

When I drop four cubes of ice
Chimingly in a glass, and add
Three goes of gin, a lemon slice,
And let a ten-ounce tonic void
In foaming gulps until it smothers
Everything else up to the edge,
I lift the lot in private pledge:
He devoted his life to others.

Philip Larkin

13 January 2021

Captain.


The Detroit Red Wings have announced their first Michigan-born captain, Hockeytown-native, Dylan Larkin.

16 April 2018

Wildest.


WIRES

The widest prairies have electric fences,
For though old cattle know they must not stray
Young steers are always scenting purer water
Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires

Leads them to blunder up against the wires
Whose muscles-shredding violence gives no quarter.
Young steers become old cattle from that day,
Electric limits to their widest senses.

Philip Larkin