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From: boutell@boutell.com (Thomas Boutell)
Subject: BOB Travelogue
Date: 12 Aug 1997 22:28:38 GMT

This was meant to be a bob report in haiku form, but it's really 
more of a sitting in a hot car for too many hours report in haiku form. (*)

I did not have the traditional talk.bizarre fanatical insistence
on 5-7-5 in mind when I wrote this. Please, let's forego the 
numerological flames.

* * * 

Long flat ribbons of Rome
Wide expanses of Arabia
Parallel berms of New Jersey

Little America fifty miles
Little America five miles
Little America two hundred miles (**)

One more degree fahrenheit
All the cheetos melt
Food Mart fries in corn oil

Still life, moving gallery
Peach halves on the dashboard
Car and driver and panorama

Work zone ahead
No sleep no soul no service
Please don't hit the deer

Watch for falling trucks
Runaway truck ramp two miles
Wreckers anchor here

Roughly rolling hills
Punishingly bright
It's a dry heat

Please pass the single malt
Please pass on the citrus wine
Please play this damn guitar

Four hours sleep on rocks
White water management seminar
Sleep or strip? Sleep or strip?

No sleep no sleep no sleep
Sixteen ounces truckstop coffee
Sudden erection and sleep

Ellensburg Ellensburg
Have you met Ellensburg
Two more hours in these pants

Watch the road for deer
Bother the driver to keep him awake
Design a solar brewery

Four day matriarchy
Imports beer scotch knick-knacks
Exports haw chili knick-knacks

-T

(*) Eminently worth it. 

(**) "Little America" is the name of two resort hotels on opposite
ends of Wyoming. As soon as you pass one you're ticking down the
miles to the other.