Sam froze while prospecting for gold.
I cremated him, as I’d been told,
In a boat by the shore.
When I opened the door,
He said, “What are you doing? It’s cold!”
Happy 146th birthday to Robert Service.
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Sam froze while prospecting for gold.
I cremated him, as I’d been told,
In a boat by the shore.
When I opened the door,
He said, “What are you doing? It’s cold!”
Happy 146th birthday to Robert Service.
Read the original here.
Read part 1 here
CALLER: Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee,
COUNSELOR: What part?
CALLER: where the cotton blooms and blows.
COUNSELOR: Um…
CALLER: Why he left his home in the South to roam ’round the Pole,
COUNSELOR: So he was a dancer?
CALLER: God only knows.
COUNSELOR: But you just said–
CALLER: He was always cold,
COUNSELOR: Was there visible shrinkage?
CALLER: but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
COUNSELOR: So he made good tips?
CALLER: Though he’d often say in his homely way
COUNSELOR: Right. So was he a good dancer? If he was homely but still got good tips.
CALLER: that “he’d sooner live in hell.”
COUNSELOR: Exotic dancing isn’t for everyone. Sometimes people burn out quickly.
COUNSELOR: Poetry Crisis Line, what is your emergency?
CALLER: There are strange things done in the midnight sun
COUNSELOR: By whom?
CALLER: By the men who moil
COUNSELOR: Yeah, that seems strange to me too. I wonder why someone would take that up as a profession.
CALLER: for gold;
COUNSELOR: You don’t think it’s some sort of sacred calling?
CALLER: The Arctic trails have their secret tales
COUNSELOR: Mohels…gold…secrets. Have you been reading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
CALLER: That would make your blood run cold;
COUNSELOR: Well, yeah. But it’s propaganda.
CALLER: The Northern Lights
COUNSELOR: Is that a bar?
CALLER: have seen queer sights,
COUNSELOR: More propaganda. No one’s trying to change your orientation.
CALLER: But the queerest they ever did see
COUNSELOR: It isn’t a competition.
CALLER: Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
COUNSELOR: And I’m not here to judge.
CALLER: I cremated Sam McGee.
COUNSELOR: Huh. I’ve never heard it called that before.
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