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Here are a couple Washington events of note for Friday, December 22, 2006 as collected by the Associated Press.
President Bush is visiting the wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. 12:40 p.m.
The Commerce Department is releasing the personal incomes and spending report and the durable goods report for November. 8:30 a.m.
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It's the first day of Winter, and so it's time for Uncle Juan to share his favorite poem of the season.
I read this back in college and I'd thought it the perfect ode to Winter.
"Ancient Music"
(A parody of the Anglo-Saxon poem, "Cuckoo Song")
by Ezra Pound
Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.
Posted by: Juanito | December 22, 2006 7:20 AM
Pound got winter in a nutshell there.
Too bad he was a Nazi.
Posted by: Tony | December 22, 2006 8:34 AM