Re: [CH] tie one on...

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Well, Daryl, I agree with all but the last line of your post!!

I, too, hate ties - though, working in the corporate world, it's a daily 
thing for me.  And, you're right - they serve no useful function at all.

Which led me, a few years ago, to write the attached.  Best read 
A/LOUD!!

Nothing Chile in there at all - but hope y'all enjoy!!

Robert.


blue collar lynching in a white collar/town


for the invention of the tie,
some Frenchman with a long face
deserves the name
Prometheus.

what is it
that grips us
more tightly than a lawyer
or a whore?

this is a strange device.
more ways to tie it
up.
more ways
to squeeze the living
from the
life.

when i wear ties
my salad fork misses my 
mouth;
my orange juice
runs down my
chin.

what short-waisted masochist!
what cowardly hypocrite!
what nail-biting, pale-skinned
loser, drying out in a 
smoky room
created this?

someone who was a cynic.
a Seventeenth Century man,
someone obsessed
with ritual.
someone
who goosestepped out of
an unhappy life
and into a Degas
painting!

the long reach
of an overprotective
Europe
hangs like a
Mississippi noose
around my
neck:

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