Thanks
 

Thank you, Ann, and for kindly pointing out my typo, my tired eyes at the late hour of posting would probably not have noticed otherwise.
-Erik

Wasted Wattage
 

Eric, a horror story! But some of us are bored by the bumbler.

Quick Impressions

Duh Bites

Fiorina was fierce
Trump a rump
Bush a bumbler
Kasich kick-ass
Rubio retro
Christie crusty
Cruz crazed
Huckabee weary
Paul peeved
Carson canny
Pataki plucky
Walker weirder
Santorum seedy
Jindal jumpy
Graham grim
Gilmore no more

If he deserves the claim of not boring, however dubious, it is only because the indignation, concern and puzzlement he occasions prevents a total stolid boredom. I am not bored because the worst of reasons. I am less than thrilled that his circus forces my attention, whether I will or no; nor am I much pleased at his turning the presidential race into a bad episode of the Apprentice. I grant you though there will always be somebody in a crowd who's bored, however outrageous or diverting, good or ill the show before them.
-Erik

Those are apt adjectives you list, RLC. The fricative sound suits fierce Fiorina's fight; the bumbling sound of Donald Trumpy who took a precipitous fall like Humpty Dumpty... So much for nursery rhyme. Here's an article accounting the face off of these two and a ditty to accompany it: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34275105

Fierce Fiorina first tests bumbling Trump;
She looks triumphant; others say, a frump.

-Erik

Head Lines

A ball bounced off my head when I was ten
and football helmets scrambled brains again
every fall for eight more playing years.
Some days, my words are tortured, rambling slurs,
but today I’m feeling proud as hell:
my brains are like a player’s in the NFL.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/...gt5?li=BBgzzfc

Eric,

Thanks for the comment and link.

Base-Jumping Extreme Sport Proves Deadly...
 

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...e-sport-deadly
I found this article about the most extreme sport practitioners in the world: Squirrel-Suit/Base-Jump Divers. The subtitle captures the drift of it: "A succession of high-profile fatal jumps has focused attention on one of the most extreme pursuits going."

This got me thinking how far removed I am from their sportive disposition, having not once even para-sailed, hang-glided, rock-climbed, or bungee-jumped. I imagined this illegal and dangerous base-jumping however must be the zenith of the active life. So I wrote about this and the opposite folly, the sedentary life gone wild.

The Extreme Sportive Man; The Extreme Shut-in (and the dangers of both)

Leaping off cliffs, these live so much
They die young falling for the rush;
Yet there are some at twice the age,
Who never flew beyond their cage.


-Erik

Erik - I know I'm an interfering old biddy so do feel free to ignore this, but I feel you're missing a trick here.

The link between the two is not so much sport itself as the desire to simulate flight - the more-than human freedom it implies, as you suggest in the last line.

However, since you've only got four lines to pursue two lines of thought, it seems a pity to complicate the last of them with a twist of syntax. What do you think about introducing the other f-word at that point: "Who never flew beyond their cage"?

Correction?
 

Fair enough Ann. Maybe this is more to the theme.


Some spurn inaction, itch to fly,
Jumping off cliffs to live, some die.
Some glacier-still, get twice the age,
Who never flew beyond their cage.

Erik,

I’m not sure who or what “twice the age” refers to. How about “some at every age” or some such? And “fly” in the last line?

Sorry about misspelling your name!