"'moved beneath summer daylight.
"'Evening reclaims them.'"
-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), PART ONE, VIII, p. 91.
I responded to this perfect haiku with:
Anderson's haiku:
Life is beautiful but brief.
All we know and need.
A weekend drive past Liverpool Docks has inspired a sequel:
Abandoned warehouse,
Broken windows growing trees.
Nature reclaims it.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
But I would far rather mankind reclaimed and reused that warehouse or its site.
Ad astra! Sean
Well, containerization....
One problem with the old way of handling cargo was that theft was rampant.
A British friend of mine handling a divorce case for a dockworker's wife couldn't get it through her head that she couldn't claim a share of the whiskey and other goods he pilfered after the divorce...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I have no objection to modernizing means of securing, storing, and shipping goods. Reducing costs due to theft is a worthwhile goal.
And I have zero sympathy for thieves and for those trying to profit from the thefts of others.
Ad astra! Sean
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