Dear HCN,
I just received your
latest edition of HCN and couldn’t get the Burma
Shave lines out of my head. I think bringing information like this
up about our checkered history is important (HCN, 10/23/00: Dear
Friends). A quick, easy-to-read sign is an innovative way to get
the information across. The hard-hitting reporting that you all do
with today’s misdeeds is also important. I enjoy reading
HCN, and since we don’t get anything like this
in our local papers, it’s a great source of
information.
Lately, my wife and partner has been
battling politicians, grazers, snowmobilers, loggers, fed-haters,
and just plain uninformed people with setting out management plans
for the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge as mandated by
the 1997 Refuge Act. (By the way, Slade Gorton didn’t help the
situation at all. George Nethercutt was a great hindrance and has
threatened to cut funding for refuges. Both voted strongly for the
1997 act. I don’t understand where they are coming from, but I’ve
learned that they are just being politicians … talking out of
both sides of their mouths.) I’ve tried to stay out of the fray,
since I tend to get into trouble by acting on emotion. But emotion
drove me nuts yesterday until I wrote this little poem down. I
thought I would pass it along.
I
probably broke some sort of poetic rules, but I feel better now.
Thanks. Bruce Kessler
Colville,
Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline ‘Burma Shave’ rhymes inspire.
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