Now lissin, boys; I’ve seen wood and I’ve seen ice.
Crowding the plate too close as a catcher, biggest kid in the first grade at bat, I got caught with a wicked slice by the towering three footer. I came to walking about fifty feet away with a horde of kids yelling and following me. Later, in the most dangerous of all sports, ice skating, where I’ve come closer to death more often than in any other endeavour, I was flying over the ice and stepped square into a tight break in the ice whereupon the cold, unforgiving hand of the ice seized my blade as though in a vice. With my great bulk turning against me as it has several times in life, I did the nastiest twist possible, flew out of my clamp on ice skates and lit square on my noble brow many feet away. Observers just arriving swore later to friends that they had seen a walrus laid out on the ice on Kickin’ Horse Reservoir which you as poetasters know also to be the home of a certain lady of some fame.
Crowding the plate too close as a catcher, biggest kid in the first grade at bat, I got caught with a wicked slice by the towering three footer. I came to walking about fifty feet away with a horde of kids yelling and following me. Later, in the most dangerous of all sports, ice skating, where I’ve come closer to death more often than in any other endeavour, I was flying over the ice and stepped square into a tight break in the ice whereupon the cold, unforgiving hand of the ice seized my blade as though in a vice. With my great bulk turning against me as it has several times in life, I did the nastiest twist possible, flew out of my clamp on ice skates and lit square on my noble brow many feet away. Observers just arriving swore later to friends that they had seen a walrus laid out on the ice on Kickin’ Horse Reservoir which you as poetasters know also to be the home of a certain lady of some fame.
