Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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Confrontation I move . . With a powerful senfse of wild, perpetual action. He moves . . . With that quiet air of inimitable, studied apathy. I grasp at life. Wrestle with it. Fight and curse it He samples life, Curious and tentative, Caressing it. I am enslaved. To reasoned, rational, unfeeling thought. At times, almost pedantic. He is ruled, By self-pleasing emotion. Yet with a plaintive touch of whimsey. I am forced To answer only to myself; — But I am so demanding. He is committed To that all-ton perfect image of his brother, And to the ghosts of countless unseen generations. And though we be but yards apart. Ten thousand miles, a thousand years. Rear up to form a wall around our minds . . . We cannot communicate. For the pressures of my tinker-toy society have chained my mouth. For the uncertainty of his youthful simplicity twists his tongue. Who is winning? . . . Lost amid my scheming and my projects. Lost amid his poems and his dreams. We are both like children scrawling patterns in the sand. 21

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The Pendulum Snow that disappears overnight. Clouds that drift away silent and quick changing darkness into light in brief, timeless seconds. Immobile sheets of ice that become clear, bubbling brooks in short warm hours. Stark and lifeless skeleton trees changed to vibrant, green growth in brief days. All, the suddeness of creation like the swing of a pendulum. Brought from the depths of the earth a sharp steel knife glints evil in the sun as it slices the fragile piece of supporting wire in mid flight. White, virgin snow turns dirty black, trees begin to topple . . . above clouds build up thick, impenetrable, permanent. Crystal clear streams have turned a murky brown. Somewhere a small black sphere falls away from the earth burning like fiery Kohoutek, Forever out of reach. 20

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The Great American Sport As the big game hunting season opens across North America, eyes are turned to Detroit, Michi- gan where hunters enjoy an innovation in the sport. Here in the ' Motor City big game hunting is not ex- clusively a rich man’s sport. Encouraged by a group of sportsmen known as the mob , citizens of De- troit have easy access to all forms of weaponry. Hunting is carried out in the city, so transportation costs don’t have to be met. The most common wea- pon used is the ' Saturday Night Special , a small hand gun which retails for about $ 25 . 00 . Fired at point blank range, it is the easiest way to obtain a trophy — a favourite with novice and expert alike. If you’re after a little extra panache, the Detroit Piano is obtainable for a few extra dollars. It is also known as a ‘ machine gun . Peculiar to Detroit and other urban centres is the habit of leaving one’s prey where it is killed. This has come to disturb city officials who see the rot- ting carcasses as a health problem. As one civic offi- cial reported, “We have more killings in Detroit than our forces can cope with.’ Maintenance workers dispose of the corpses at the city’s mor- gues, crematoriums, and undertakers’ establish- ments, but measures have had to be taken to curb the increasing number of killings. A licensing sys- tem has come into effect. The licensee must com- plete one year of training before receiving his legal permission to kill. By way of recognition he is given a blue jacket and a badge. Unlicensed hunters are either shot or locked up for a short time. Unfortunately, the number of killings continues to increase. In an effort to alleviate the problem the mayor is levying a special tax. The new tax will be used to provide free transportation to rural areas for under-privileged hunters who cannot afford li- censes. The mayor hopes that other hunters will again take to the woods, to help get the stinking car- casses o ff th e streets. Environmentalist Jacob Boor hopes that ... the citizens of Detroit will come to realize the food va- lue of the numerous dead bodies. We cannot afford to waste th is valuable meat merely for the sake of sport in light of current food shortages.’ It seems that for all the good intentions of the mob to bring hunting to the people, Detroit is faced with a number of problems. We can be as- sured however that the problems will be ironed out in the American tradition of Truth, Justice, and Freedom . As H enrv Ford brought the automo- bile to the people of Detroit, so the mob’ has brought hunting, that great American Sport. 22