Sunday, November 7, 2010

(21) March 16, 2010: The Digger

THE DIGGER

I dug a tunnel to Kathmandu
  Some fourteen thousand grinding miles.
  I started from the British Isles
And drove my Digger straight on through.

With diamond-bladed chewing screws
  My monstrous Digger bored the hole
  While I, with fingertip control,
Divined the path it would pursue.

It all went well until the last
  When breaking through Nepali soil
  I found Sir Arthur Conan doyle
With Sherlock Holmes, protagonist,

Alive and well detective style
  They showed me how I'd missed the mark
  By nearly one full minute of arc
And hauled me off without a trial.

D. Edgar Lamp

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