While I was waiting for a plane to take be back to Iraq I wrote a four-line verse for a contest by Robin Abrahams, the Boston Globe's Miss Conduct. Voting is now open. If you want to see what kind of verse I write in a tent in Kuwait, and better yet if you want to make me a the only poetry contest winner in my unit here in Iraq, please follow the link and vote.
By the end of the 2nd week in America I was beginning to think my bone spur problem was improving. All day today I worked in the motor pool walking on rocks. The improvement was because I was away from the rocks. I am back to limping now. So I will return to sick call and continue whatever procedure I have to go through to get the bone spur removed.
We are already planning the next issue of the Echo Company Newsletter. I can't post PDFs on the blog because of restrictions on blogger.com, but if you want a copy, let me know and I will email it to you. ngussman@gmail.com.
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A command to vote has been sent to everyone at CHF. We will be sure to do our patriotic duty! What do you get if you win?
ReplyDeleteJust discovered a great chemistry connection: the 4-line clerihew poem was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote his first poem about Humphry Davy:
ReplyDeleteSir Humphry Davy
Was not fond of gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
(Info courtesy of Wikipedia)
Thanks. I have no idea what fabulous virtual prize I might win!! The Davy poem assures me that I am properly within the Clerihew tradition by writing about John Wayne.
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