tug of war

On August 16 I participated in a Tug-O’-War at the Jacot family picnic. Later I drew what I thought it looked like, and acrosticized some related thought, thus:

For the record, and to show how different the Mind’s Eye is from The Truth in this instance, here is a photo I saw after I made the drawing:

My drawing serves the storytelling purpose, perhaps, but I’ve long been disabused of the notion of “photographic memory.”

Here are the words:

The freeflown feather has a softer touch than lacquered jackstraw
Upon a daemon schmendrick doffing hatted candelabra
Gesundheit cures aloofness–good example is the answer