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Clipped this from the free weekly Reader 24 years ago. Now it’s the season to share it again.
If it’s too small to read, here’s what it says:
Ernie Pook’s Comeek, by Lynda Barry 2000
This Time of Year
It gets dark after Halloween passes. Something about Earth’s axis and our distance from the sun. I got it right on the test but can’t remember it now.
At the equator things are different. No winter. No turning back clocks. What are they doing on the equator today? How late do they get to stay outside? Here it gets darker and darker.
In my class we are reading about plants, the wonder of them. There is an experiment we are doing. A baby bean plant in the corner of a closed-up box. A tiny pin-hole poked in the opposite side.
Today we got to open it. The bean plant had tried. The bean plant had struggled. It made it halfway across the box before it died. Only stupid idiots cry about a bean plant. They are going to tease me about this forever.
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(This is roughly half the poem. If you want to experience the whole poem, just don’t stop reading it)
when i was five
i went fishing with my family
my dad caught a turtle
my mom caught a snapper
my brother caught a crab
i caught a whale
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Aug 6, 2024
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I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?
Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless.
Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia?
Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.
Mar 5, 2024
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"Then stand very still and listen, projecting your consciousness up into the dark arch of the sky above you. Presently your ears will detect tiny wisps of sound—sharp chirps, sibilant lisps and call notes. They are the voices of bird migrants... I never hear these calls without a wave of feeling that is compounded of many emotions—a sense of lonely distances, a compassionate awareness of small lives controlled and directed by forces beyond volition or denial, a surging wonder at the sure instinct for route and direction that so far has baffled human efforts to explain it"
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