Quote:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Monday, April 14, 2014

Fishing Story














Emigrant Lake

Sitting at the edge of Emigrant Lake,
Rex Dern cast his line as the long shadows
raked over the hills. Whenever Talent
began to weigh on him, Rex came here to fish
and pray. In this manner he discovered
two varieties of raging despair;
the willful variety that is self-induced,
and the other one that seduces on
secret wings and settles just out of sight,
creating a sensation of soulless
blight. Rex reeled his line in and checked his bait.
It looked beaten in its soaked weightlessness.
It looked damaged by a convivial
trout learned in the art of survival.


TS

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