Its

 

a long story lol.

and I dnt really wanna get into all the particulars.

Lord knows ya already heard em or will

someday here soon anyway.

And no this isn't about

"The Wall."

or international borders 

or anything like that.

Its about how stupid

and arrogant

people have become 

these days.

She is fine.

Toyota sure aint lol.

It was black "as night"

It aint like 

theres a bunch of lights 

around here lol.

Cows black lol.

The sheriffs deputies 

(2 of em lol) 

asked me three times

how fast I was going.

To which I replied each time:

"I don't know."

Now I would have told them:

"Apparently not fast enough

to activate the air bag."

The First sheriff dep tried telling me 

I had left the scene of an accident.

I have had more than my fair share 

of run in's 

with Law Enforcement 

(and some friends of mine have too)

over the years,

just because of stupid shit 

just like that right there.

"I left the scene of an accident?

On my own driveway?"

"Well technically 

because there was 

property damage involved

blah blah blah...

Fuckin cow is fine this AM.

Somebody was just trying to be a jerk.

And it wasn't the sheriffs dept.

I gave em my drivers lic and when inside

 and got dressed. 

I was ready to be hauled off.

I went back outside a lil later 

and there was another

deputy.

 I just shook my head...

Later?

 I was glad he was here:

"We are just here to document 

things for insurance purposes 

for both of you all."

(Honey already had my lic back

and at that point?

I knew all good.)

"This is a civil matter 

not a criminal one 

you contacted 

the owner of the property 

as soon as you could."

(Check,

noted,

filed away 

for future reference.)

Later on we are talking about speed limits

On state Roads, posted, not posted, 

on private property etc.

I asked:

"So what exactly is the speed limit 

on a private road?"

"There isn't one."

That told me 

EXACTLY

who was behind all of that.

And It sure wasn't the sheriff deputy's.

(Also noted.

And filed away.

For future reference.)

So?

From here:

My book from college BTW.

Masterpieces of American Literature

Eng 365.

300-400 pages of reading every two days, 

and a spot quiz in class over them.

Seriously.

mere snippets 

of a sentence, a phrase

a essay

a book title a play,

what have you,

and you had to give 

Author and title of the work.

Quiz Every day.

I kid you not.

And this was an elective lol...

I Took my C 

(another long story lol)

and was happy with it lol.

It was cool though:

Emerson

Frost

Dickinson

Melville

Faulkner

Poe

Thoreau

Hawthorne

James

Fitzgerald

Glad I took the class 

even though I hated it at the time 

and I am glad I kept the books 

especially the Thoreau, Poe, 

Frost and Dickinson ones.

Mending Wall

By

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

The work of hunters is another thing:

I have come after them and made repair

Where they have left not one stone on a stone,

But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,

To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,

No one has seen them made or heard them made,

But at spring mending-time we find them there.

I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;

And on a day we meet to walk the line

And set the wall between us once again.

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

And some are loaves and some so nearly balls

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game,

One on a side. It comes to little more:

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offense.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,

But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather

He said it for himself. I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father’s saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’

Only there are cows out here.

And if you're gonna put cows 

on somebody elses property? 

WHERE OTHER PEOPLE LIVE?

(Us)

Ya might wanna put up a fence.

And since the insurance company said 

the cow owner is responsible 

for Honeys deductible?

Because the livestock 

was allowed to roam free?

(She's already offered to pay them to pay it BTW. If that don't tell ya what kind of person she is. And? We haven't heard back from em yet. Its been all day. I just ant imagine why that is. Can you?)

Id say the insurance company 

agrees with us.

For good reason.

It's just.

So just put up a damn fence.

And we will pay for it as well.

So this kind of stupid 

ignorant shit don't keep happening.

WE ARE JUST TIRED 

OF THE IGNORANT,

 STUPID SHIT, 

IN OUR LIVES.

That is why we live out here.

To stay away from all of that.

And how the hell?

Do you total a Toyota?

AND THE AIR BAG 

DOESNT EVEN GO OFF?

I walk around 

all day long 

just shaking my head 

at people's arrogance,

ignorance 

and stupidity 

anymore.

Its dumbfounding.

People weren't  like this 

40 years ago...

They just weren't.