[pct-l] Good uses for dead hiker husbands

[Scott Williams]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:09 PM, eckert <jape1 at cox.net> wrote:

> On 2/26/2011 1:39 PM, Reinhold Metzger wrote:
> > Say Switchback,
> > You and I are getting old and have been around for a long
> > time...........some say to long!!!
> > We are the last of the hard core and sooner or later will pass
> > away.....some may say better sooner than later!!!
> > Did you ever wonder what will become of us after we pass away?
> > Will the women bury us, put flowers on our graves and mourn for decades
> to come?
> > Will they erect a monument to us and engrave......R I P....Switchback&
> > Reinhold  "the last of the hard core".
> > Or will they put our bodies to some good use?
> > <snip>
>
> To paraphrase an old Lee Hays song:
>
> If I should die before I wake,
> All my bone and sinew take
> Put me in the compost pile
> To decompose me for a while.
>
> Worms, water, sun will have their way,
> Returning me to common clay
> All that I am will feed the trees
> And little fishes in the seas.
>
> When radishes and corn you munch,
> You may be having me for lunch
> And then excrete me with a grin,
> Chortling, "There goes JMT again."
>
> melodiously yours
> eckert
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