RONATHON! The Umapine Tetralogy: PORPOISE

The second book in Ronald H. Bayes' Umapine Tetralogy is PORPOISE. The following are excerpts preceded by the book's epigraph.


Black snout of a porpoise
          where Lycabs had been,
Fish scales on the oarsmen.
          And I worship.
I have seen what I have seen.
         --E.P.
         Canto II


1st PORPOISE: THIRD BOOK

            Pensive student sitting before your desk,
wondering just what there is to risk,
taking the risk of your hide for granted,
if wise, point your myopic eyes up.
The cutting down to size time does is ours
in time. Forget the reason and forget the rhyme.
Time's now.

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"B. GRATZ BROWN! B. GRATZ BROWN!
EVERYBODY LOVES B. GRATZ BROWN!"

If Brown won't take it we will have to try to win through
with Wevley Edwards & Darlington Hoopes, I suppose.

TUNE IN AGAIN TOMORROW & SEE IF THERE IS
HOPE: IF THE HASS FACTION, RECONCILED TO
SLIM HASS' NET WEIGHT, NO SPRINGS, WILL JOIN
AGAIN WITH DARLINGTON, DESPITE THE HERNIA
GAINED WHEN THE COFFIN SHIFTED. "B. GRATZ
BROWN! B. GRATZ BROWN!"

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& damn that Schuyler Colfax. If he hadn't of screwed
up..." sd Harshbarger before going to join
Ian Smith.

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B. GRATZ BROWN! B. GRATZ BROWN!
EVERYBODY LOVES B. GRATZ BROWN!

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Staying Power, Sir. Fear. Dedication. Add up to outside

term

of Staying Power; and a local press, Sir. One needs that.

"INDIAN RETURNS TO HIS RESERVATION"
say, is a fine headline, fine. Yes.

Staying Power.
Dedication.
Fear.

Greeley. Colfax. B. GRATZ BROWN!

The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 1: "...The pleasure
of hating--one's self is no better victim offered..."

The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 10: "...The private
secretary made bold to ask him outright: 'Then, Mr.
Weed, do you think that no politician can be trusted?'
Mr. Weed hesitated for a moment; then said in his mild
manner: 'I never advise a young man to begin by thinking
so'."





3rd PORPOISE: THIRD BOOK

The eyes--yes, and the ayes, the affirmations, yes--
fade out quickly
in a relatively amplified situation
you recognize as yours.

O cast,
cast,
my fisherman:
there is
something
about-about...