After-Orts #97

From the in-case-you-missed-it subdivision of the news-from-all-over department,
this tidbit from July 2022:

- Chess-playing robot breaks finger of 7-year-old boy during match -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/07/24/chess-playing-robot-breaks-finger-7-year-old-boy-during-match/

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… Sir Walter Raleigh, a poet, soldier, Queen Elizabeth’s boyfriend, who sailed up the Orinoco in search of El Dorado and failed and came back to London to be accused of treason and thrown in prison and have his head chopped off, a warning to the rest of us: don’t rise too high too fast. A long fall for a great man…

One day you’re a handsome dashing poet and pal of monarchy and the next day you’re a city in North Carolina.

     — Garrison Keillor, https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/working-my-way-toward-a-philosophy-9ed
 

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This Is Just to Say

     by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
 

This Is Just to Say

     by Erica-Lynn Gambino
(for William Carlos Williams)

I have just
asked you to
get out of my
apartment

even though
you never
thought 
I would

Forgive me
you were
driving
me insane