[DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

[Larry - Ohio Time Corp]

<< the lesson of the moth>>


Sean,

Please do not buy the mushrooms from the guy on the street any more...



Larry (attracted to LED now) - Cleveland



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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Sean Korb
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:54 AM
To: deTomaso list
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Glad my ears still work

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Robert Simpson <R.Simpson35 at verizon.net>
wrote:
>
> Funny how your senses can go on full alert when things like that happen,
the
> water heater sounded like a jet engine as it fired up, LOL, I almost
crapped
> myself. Gas fumes in the garage, puddle on the floor and the water heater
> (bzzzzzzzzzz WOOSH)

Yiiikes!

One of the first things I did after I bought my Pantera was replace
the fuel lines and filter since the car had been stored in a car port
for the 10 years that I had been admiring it from afar.  But that
didn't protect me.  I also siphoned out all the gasoline from the tank
(I thought I had a volatility problem) and went inside the house to
fix a sandwich.

Don't get distracted when siphoning gasoline.  When I came back to
check on it the 6 gallon gas can was overflowing and a puddle 12 feet
in diameter had formed around my new car... and under the water
heater!  I had a squeegee and got as much of it as I could out of the
garage, all the while imagining myself immolated like Don Marquis The
Lesson of the Moth.

the lesson of the moth

i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires

why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense

plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves

and before i could argue him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity

but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself

--
Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65, '68 Mustangs, '68 Cougar, '78 R100/7, '60 Metro, '59 A35, '71 Pantera
#1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso



-- 
Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65, '68 Mustangs, '68 Cougar, '78 R100/7, '60 Metro, '59 A35, '71 Pantera
#1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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