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Sunday 28 March 2010

A Trophy


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Chipmunk: photo by arudhio, 2006



He raised the gun

and fired, and fired



again -- a certain

satisfaction, then,



to leave

the bodies of the dead



animals there, to stain

the snow with



red -- colour

of triumph.




2 comments:

Curtis Roberts said...

Thank you more than I can say. Following my too-lengthy post concerning the deer culling history in Tuxedo Park, NY (and now Swarthmore, PA), I would simply add that several years before culling was first allowed inside the Park, a routine began where residents formed groups to conduct deer drives to chase animals out of the Park, through woods and over walls, into a gauntlet of waiting hunters. Mothers and fathers would march, beating drums and cans, dressed in idiotic pseudo-hunting attire and looking like unisex Elmer Fudds, teaching their kids to chase the deer to their deaths. We were able to stop this finally; the practice was illegal in New York State. "A Trophy" should be taught in schools, in churches and broadcast on tv, radio and in cinemas. It's right and very fine.

TC said...

Curtis,

A few curious technical difficulties with this blog this morning, and also social difficulties with this post, thus interrupting service on this blog for an hour or so.

Apologies to everyone who may have been inconvenienced.

We have been looking into it.

Meanwhile, Curtis, I am restoring your useful posted comment.

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Curtis Roberts said...

Thank you more than I can say. Following my too-lengthy post concerning the deer culling history in Tuxedo Park, NY (and now Swarthmore, PA), I would simply add that several years before culling was first allowed inside the Park, a routine began where residents formed groups to conduct deer drives to chase animals out of the Park, through woods and over walls, into a gauntlet of waiting hunters. Mothers and fathers would march, beating drums and cans, dressed in idiotic pseudo-hunting attire and looking like unisex Elmer Fudds, teaching their kids to chase the deer to their deaths. We were able to stop this finally; the practice was illegal in New York State. "A Trophy" should be taught in schools, in churches and broadcast on tv, radio and in cinemas. It's right and very fine.

28 March 2010 16:05