Endless channels

  

'The first mention of the Cimmerians in Graeco-Roman literature dates from the 8th century BC in Homer's Odyssey,  

which describes them as a people living beyond the western shore of Oceanus river which encircles the world,  

at the entrance of Hades in a land covered with mist and clouds and permanently deprived of sunlight, 

 where they dwelled where the Sun-god Hēlios sets."

'This mention of the Cimmerians in the Odyssey was purely poetic 

 and contained no reliable information about the real Cimmerian people, 

 and this image was created as a poetic opposite of the Laestrygonians and Aethiopians, 

 who in ancient Greek mythology lived in a permanently lit land  

on the eastern borders of the world"

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Florida built on ashes in full sunlight after the winds sweep down the rolly poly huts, Oregon blanketed by that which births trees, dry needles fall from my redwood home to mulch in the Sept. deluge. Mother of both in a box in a photo, don't cry. You'll wet your box. It's not a Whitman sampler, nor is it a blade of grass. All our nougat stuck in the molars is the same fine powder as our mind, femur, and toenails. Where does a non materialist lie? In a grammar river bed?  In state? In front of endless channels. 

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"Early modern historians asserted Cimmerian descent for the Celts or the Germans, arguing from the similarity of Cimmerii to Cimbri or Cymry, noted by 17th-century Celticists. 

 But the word Cymro "Welshman" (plural: Cymry) is now accepted by Celtic linguists as being derived from a Brythonic word *kom-brogos, meaning "compatriot"

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"Frog Went a-Courtin'" is an English-language folk song. Its first known appearance is in Wedderburn's Complaynt of Scotland (1549) under the name "The Frog cam to the Myl dur", though this is in Scots rather than English.

 There is a reference in the London Company of Stationers' Register of 1580 to "A Moste Strange Weddinge of the Frogge and the Mouse." There are many texts of the ballad; however the oldest known musical version is found in Thomas Ravenscroft's Melismata in 1611." 

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"The Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek: Βατραχομυομαχία, from βάτραχος, "frog", μῦς, "mouse", and μάχη, "battle") or Battle of the Frogs and Mice is a comic epic, or a parody of the Iliad, commonly attributed to Homer, although other authors have been proposed." 

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"Psycharpax, the Mouse-Prince, having escaped a hunting cat, stops by the shore of a lake to drink, and encounters the Frog King Physignathus.  

Physignathus offers to show Psycharpax his kingdom, on the other side of the lake, and the Mouse agrees. Psycharpax climbs onto the Frog King's back, and Physignathus begins to swim across the lake. In the middle of the lake, they are confronted by a frightening water snake. Physignathus dives, forgetting about Psycharpax, who cannot swim, and drowns."

"On the bank, another Mouse witnesses Psycharpax' death, and informs the other Mice, who arm themselves for battle to avenge the Frog King's treachery, and send a herald to the Frogs with a declaration of war.  

The Frogs blame their King, who altogether denies the incident. In the meantime, Zeus, seeing the brewing war, proposes that the gods take sides, and specifically that Athena help the Mice.  

Athena refuses, saying that the Mice have done her a lot of mischief, as have the Frogs, and that it would be more prudent for the gods to watch rather than get involved. A battle ensues, and the Mice prevail.  

Zeus summons a force of crabs to prevent the complete destruction of the Frogs. Powerless against the armoured crabs, the Mice retreat, and the one-day war ends at sundown." 

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Oregon built on mud packed by three ton beavers, it's going nowhere, a leaf eddies to dissolve your impatience. Everyone is homelessly hatching revenue plans, nike sucks off it's sweatshop blood and writes off its rubber. Celilo starts again, the third overhaul, 10k BC. Coprolites circle the fish ladder. A bus rams a police car ramming a pedestrian jaywalking a melty mt tabor vulture ramming a recycled court with a torn net. It all goes in.

Everyone is dead in mobile homes, praying for reception. The rabbit ears don't work but get anachronism benefits as pong rules the black and white civil war. It's a country western vegan luddite back porch orgy on bike. The burning women chill, the dust off their frames built modern portland. Hair on kennewick thing sops up the non sunlight thatching morning. Another round and we study our follies of study, that's a noble foundation with trustees and riprap. Logic Motors power washed their cars, now my bike gears grind the mile slime left outside the sidewalk cyclone fence, which strains little. Florida drys out in the hot tub of insurance rapes. 

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"The returning group neglected to replace the black sail with the promised white sail, and from his lookout on Cape Sounion, King Aegeus saw the black-sailed ship approach.  

Presuming his son dead, he killed himself by leaping into the sea that is since named after him. 

His death secured the throne for Theseus."  

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"Folsom gives its name to the nearby type site for the Folsom Tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 9000 and 8000 BC.  

The Folsom site, about 8 miles west of the village, was excavated in 1926, and found to have been a marsh-side kill site or camp where 23 bison had been killed using distinctive tools, known as Folsom points. " 

"Folsom is situated in a wide valley near the headwaters of the Cimarron River"  

"While patching fence, McJunkin entered an arroyo where he discovered remains of several giant prehistoric bison, exposed where the flood had deeply eroded the arroyo bed.  

Among the bones of the bison was a distinctive type of stone tool, now called a Folsom point.  

Recognizing the significance of the find, McJunkin left the site undisturbed, except for recovering a few sample points. " 

"McJunkin's discovery of the Folsom site changed New World archaeology, as it showed that people had inhabited North America since at least 9000 BCE, 

 some 7000 years earlier than previously thought." 

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