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“It is the speculation

that thrills her. “ - the power of poetry.

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Jun 30Liked by Weston Parker

De plane! De plane!

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Ha!

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Jun 30Liked by Weston Parker

I could never figure out those math problems when a train comes from the south at 30 mph and a bullet train from the north on the same track is going 100 miles per hour what color are the cows that die when the trains collide. I always thought these were complete nonsense. What dummy dispatcher would put a bullet train on a freight track. And yet I appreciate the creativity of anyone who can make any sense of this mixed up country.

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Ha! The only way to make sense of this world is to be at least 1/3 crazy. I remember my Grandpa showing me a fencepost, which was made of black locust. A tornado had come through their ranch in Arkansas and made the hay barn disappear. They found parts of it a mile or two away on another neighbor's property. The ranch house was spared but he showed me several pieces of straw from the hay barn that had penetrated the fence post. When you get tremendous speed, even something like straw can become equal to black locust. Isn't that amazing? And so, maybe the airplane would overcome the train or at least the 1/3 crazy part thinks so.

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Jun 30Liked by Weston Parker

I know you wood have something to say that would explain what was not plain to me about a plane that was not a carpenter’s plain but was level headed anyway.

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Ooh, that's a good one Jack.

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