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Random thought for the day
- Thread starter RapidSpyder
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Gwolf
Well-known member
The Red Son
by Carl Sandburg
I love your faces I saw the many years
I drank your milk and filled my mouth
With your home talk, slept in your house
And was one of you.
But a fire burns in my heart.
Under the ribs where pulses thud
And flitting between bones of skull
Is the push, the endless mysterious command,
Saying:
"I leave you behind—
You for the little hills and the years all alike,
You with your patient cows and old houses
Protected from the rain,
I am going away and I never come back to you;
Crags and high rough places call me,
Great places of death
Where men go empty handed
And pass over smiling
To the star-drift on the horizon rim.
My last whisper shall be alone, unknown;
I shall go to the city and fight against it,
And make it give me passwords
Of luck and love, women worth dying for,
And money.
I go where you wist not of
Nor I nor any man nor woman.
I only know I go to storms
Grappling against things wet and naked."
There is no pity of it and no blame.
None of us is in the wrong.
After all it is only this:
You for the little hills and I go away.
BamaJohn
Active member
On a lighter note.....
THE DISPUTED EPICURE
"What's your favorite cut of beef?"
the highborn lady queried.
Of an old cowboy who long ago
had grown, both wise and wearied,
Of direct infernal questions
on the ways of cowpoke lore.
So, he considered on this question
that he'd not been asked before.
With rapt anticipation,
on his pause, the lady hung.
Until, at last the cowboy said,
"I'd have to say it's tongue.
Tongue's got flavor 'n texture,
and nary a bit of bone.
A cinch to cook. I'd put her up
on top there, all alone."
Recoiling, the lady said aghast,
"Surely sir, you jest.
The idea is disgusting.
Your grossness I protest.
Eat something from out a cow's mouth?
Your suggestion's crude, I beg."
The cowboy then said softly,
"Don't s'pose you've ate no egg."
Wallace McRae
"Cowboy Curmudgeon and other poems"
THE DISPUTED EPICURE
"What's your favorite cut of beef?"
the highborn lady queried.
Of an old cowboy who long ago
had grown, both wise and wearied,
Of direct infernal questions
on the ways of cowpoke lore.
So, he considered on this question
that he'd not been asked before.
With rapt anticipation,
on his pause, the lady hung.
Until, at last the cowboy said,
"I'd have to say it's tongue.
Tongue's got flavor 'n texture,
and nary a bit of bone.
A cinch to cook. I'd put her up
on top there, all alone."
Recoiling, the lady said aghast,
"Surely sir, you jest.
The idea is disgusting.
Your grossness I protest.
Eat something from out a cow's mouth?
Your suggestion's crude, I beg."
The cowboy then said softly,
"Don't s'pose you've ate no egg."
Wallace McRae
"Cowboy Curmudgeon and other poems"
Gwolf
Well-known member
The only good view of a thunderstorm is in your rear-view mirror.
People ask us why we ride a motorcycle. For those who have experienced the joy,
no explanation is necessary; for those who have not, no explanation is possible.
Four wheels move the body; two (or three) wheels move the soul.
Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.
Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 60 mph!
You start the game of life with a full pot o' luck and an empty pot o' experience. The
object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Midnight bugs taste just as bad as Noon time bugs..
Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.
Sometimes it takes a whole tank full of gas before you can think straight.
Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.
Never do less than forty miles before breakfast.
A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived, and still rides.
Young riders pick a destination and go. Old riders pick a direction and go.
A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
Always back your bike into the curb and sit where you can see it.
There are drunk riders and there are old riders,
but there are not many OLD,DRUNK RIDERS.
Ride to work. Work to ride.
Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude.
When you look down the road, it seems to never end - but you better believe it does!
Winter is Nature's way of telling you to test the electrics.
Keep your bike in good repair.
Motorcycle boots are not all that comfortable for walking.
People are like Motorcycles: each is customised a bit differently.
Sometimes, the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.
When you're riding lead, don't spit.
A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 a.m. to drive his pickup to the middle of
nowhere to get you when you're broken down.
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt @ 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.
If you can't get it going with bungee cords and duct tape, it's serious.
If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there may not be.
The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
Always replace the cheapest parts first.
You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.
Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Keep the paint up, and the rubber down!
There are two types of people in this world, people who ride motorcycles and people
who wish they could ride.
People ask us why we ride a motorcycle. For those who have experienced the joy,
no explanation is necessary; for those who have not, no explanation is possible.
Four wheels move the body; two (or three) wheels move the soul.
Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle.
Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 60 mph!
You start the game of life with a full pot o' luck and an empty pot o' experience. The
object is to fill the pot of experience before you empty the pot of luck.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Midnight bugs taste just as bad as Noon time bugs..
Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.
Don't ride so late into the night that you sleep through the sunrise.
Sometimes it takes a whole tank full of gas before you can think straight.
Riding faster than everyone else only guarantees you'll ride alone.
Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town.
Never do less than forty miles before breakfast.
A bike on the road is worth two in the shed.
Respect the person who has seen the dark side of motorcycling and lived, and still rides.
Young riders pick a destination and go. Old riders pick a direction and go.
A good mechanic will let you watch without charging you for it.
Sometimes the fastest way to get there is to stop for the night.
Always back your bike into the curb and sit where you can see it.
There are drunk riders and there are old riders,
but there are not many OLD,DRUNK RIDERS.
Ride to work. Work to ride.
Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude.
When you look down the road, it seems to never end - but you better believe it does!
Winter is Nature's way of telling you to test the electrics.
Keep your bike in good repair.
Motorcycle boots are not all that comfortable for walking.
People are like Motorcycles: each is customised a bit differently.
Sometimes, the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes.
When you're riding lead, don't spit.
A friend is someone who'll get out of bed at 2 a.m. to drive his pickup to the middle of
nowhere to get you when you're broken down.
Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt @ 70 mph can double your vocabulary.
There's something ugly about a NEW bike on a trailer.
Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't.
If you can't get it going with bungee cords and duct tape, it's serious.
If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there may not be.
The best modifications cannot be seen from the outside.
Always replace the cheapest parts first.
You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.
Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Keep the paint up, and the rubber down!
There are two types of people in this world, people who ride motorcycles and people
who wish they could ride.
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Flier Tuck
Member
A good biker friend will come over to help you move at short notice.
A really good biker friend will come over to help you move a body at short notice.
A really good biker friend will come over to help you move a body at short notice.
RapidSpyder
Well-known member
Started riding in the 60's.
Got busted up in the 80's
Right arm didn't work for two years.
Got back on a bike 20 years later.
That was over 20 years ago.
Been on three the last two.
I understand this poem.
