Potluck Dinner Weds!

Emily has kindly offered to host a gathering--I propose Weds. early-ish [6 or 7] to allow subsequent young-folk activities [work or play]! If half of us bring dishes, we'll have plenty for all... so none fear culinary duties. I can also do it Thurs. or even Friday, but I fear too many of you will have flown the coop by then. I really would like to see everyone again in an even less formal setting!

here it is

I, the final arbiter

and ultimate enforcer

of such things (appointed by the king!), make official

and binding this: that the eyes shall be gouged out

and replaced by hot coals

in the head, the blockhead,

of each citizen who,

upon reaching his/her majority,

has yet to read

Moby-Dick, by Mr. Herman Melville (1819-1891), American

novelist

and poet.

a poem

I ran across this poem on NPR... "Eyes Scooped Out and Replaced by Hot Coals" by Thomas Lux.