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Unfurled, it is your private shield, protection on a pole

Much needed in a downpour or to give Romance some Soul

Bestow a small one on a drink & let the good times roll

Regardless of how much you’ve had, you’re gonna want Samoa

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That last-word Punchline Pun owes something to my college days in Tucson in the mid-Seventies, and a TV commercial for a Pacific Islands restaurant called Kon-Tiki. They had a Big-Kahuna-type guy say stuff like “Little Chief LIKE Kon-Tiki!” in a fake Polynesian accent. His next to last line was “Little Chief misses his island home!” and the curvy hula-skirt-clad girl by his side asked, “Samoa?”, whereupon Little Chief grabbed at a goodies-heaped plate, dropped the Polynesian accent, and said, Texas style, “Ah don’t mahnd ef Ah DO!”

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I want a new Arms race. Let us invent protection, and let us disinvent harmseeking. The Taser is a step in the right direction, but it is easily abused. The technology imagined in Damon Knight’s “Rule Golden” SEEMS impossible, but much less impossible than when Knight dreamed it up, around the time I was born. I hope he will prove to be prescient on that score.

Then there are branches, the arms of trees. They take away the Cee from Cee-Oh-Two, and we continue breathing. Plant Earth, Friends! Race you the world round!

Words:

Perhaps it is correct to hug a tree
Lay down our arms or drop them in the sea
And grow a hateless horde with hearts that soar
Now let us uninvent the col de mort
‘Tis tantamount to Lazarus, Come Forth