Harper College - Halcyon Yearbook (Palatine, IL)

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By: Rich Robey Tlze Squirrel 's Bark Wlzen snow hisses down from the Paradise Mill in a soft tenor To wet and fold the woods witlz grace, tlze autunzn squirrel stops from dodging To seek an UADCII plain and bark a prayer for heaven sweeter than a nut, Before returning to a hungry peace in nested hollows. When an evening snow lzisses down from the Paradise Mill Through grey clouds To moist and cool tlze burning matter of Man, and tlze evergreen bows Like a nodding gentleman against the window his white rainmant of hair Forgiving even to the pane, The time has come For the yellow-fingered traveler wlzo muses out the pane from a brass and leather eoffined ehair And sends his thoughts to stalk In lung clutched reverie Among the brown trees, To turn and seek an open plain and tlzere gun down the squirrels bark, That godless presence of death, Then drop his l1unter's gun And walk in red silence Aeross the snowy wilderness 2-1 By: Rich Robey Soul Spider Web of my body, Black air between threads, I fear for your Tonight the spider crawls on flesh Tonight the spider crosses flesh. Soul spider, slzape to the infinity 1 reach You shape is grief My heart will Cease, Who will rip it from my chest Who burv it What fingers dig it up And plant it in the sky? My mind treads steel-blue beams Only in darkness, Through weaving dreams. Web of my body, Black air between threads, I fear for you: Tonight the spider crawls on flesh Tonight the spider crosses flesh.

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at his modest abode and demanded an explanation. You're giving the building inspectors' department a bad name, they said. Every- one expects inspectors to take bribes but you haven't taken a single one. But that's not true. l've taken lots of bribes, Ethos insisted. Then why hasn't anyone seen you? they demanded. Because I am very cautious, Ethos ex- plained. Here, let me show you. He dropped a small leather sack of coins on the floor. Then he stooped down and stood up again, almost in the same movement. Ah ha! exclamed one of the delegates. lt's still there. Ethos nudged the empty sack with his foot to indicate that he had made a switch. But the delegates went away, struck with awe, muttering to themselves, and believ- ing that Ethos had somehow gotten the coins out and left the sack on the floor. A few days later, orders came from the top that Ethos was to spend some of his bribe money in a conspicuous way so as to restore the people's confidence in their pub- lic officials. Ethos lost no time in having a fine new house built for him and his family Then he rented his old house to three families of wandering gypsies. Ethos' reward was swift and immediate. He was assigned to inspect the reconstruc- tion of the harbor while another inspector was given the thankless task of inspecting the Parthenon's decoration, a job that would take at least another five years. At this point, Ethos blends slowly into the background amid the admiration of everyone, including the party faithful and the general populace. The Parthenon's new inspector hurried right over to collect his first payoff. But the chief engineer, think- ing he was an inspector of the old school, offered him a sack of money right out there in front of everyone. He indignantly spurn- ed the sack and said, Certainly not. After all, l have my Ethos, too. His point was well taken and, from then on, all his bribes were offered in secret. He was followed by a host of public servants who also had their Ethos. And it didn't take ethics, that branch of philosophy that de- mands that a person be honest enough to take his bribes in such a way so as not to outrage the public dignity. 'IF LJ 23

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