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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM

Got a Fly, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, November 1, 2011
Got a Fly, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, November 1, 2011

Got a fly

In a swatting frenzy before I flew out of Oasis this morning I broke my hi-zoot designer swatter with the big comfort grip handle and light plastic head.

Met a guy here at Sumner Lake who opened his door (at another park) and in came 145 flies. Wish I had only a 145 fly problem...

[Later] I got the herd pretty well under control with a new cheap, strong, WallyWorld flyswatter in concert with some good old-fashioned fly paper.

Night camp

Site 34 - Sumner Lake State Park, Fort Sumner NM

I Mourn the World in Which I Live

And for doing all this I will hate myself. I mourn the world in which I live because for me there is no place unless I compromise. All I can do is gather up the shattered remains of my hope and love and in the debris of the world keep at least one small blaze of poetry burning....

an anonymous participant in one of Murray's Harvard psychological stress tests in the 50's, also undergone by Ted Kazynski

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