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The story of my Stetson
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The story of my Stetson |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
In such a lovely wooden shop, we bought classy shirts and gifts, and I made my desires come true buying an expensive Stetson Hat. Visiting the Grand Canyon during eight hours, I missed a part of my hat story… Was it stolen in the car ? Did I abandoned it on the track ? Did a donkey eat it ? Guess what I don’t know anything about the story of my american beige Stetson, the essence of the american spirit…. |
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Eldest Member
since 2010-06-15
Posts 177Alabama |
how frustrating, to get it and lose it that quickly! |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Awww, kind of sad, huh. Sometimes, dreams that come true can't stick around long - they are magical and have places to go and things to see. Thank you, yann. Alison |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
your loss is our gain with this 'slice of life' write! well 'penned' !! |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
Hmm… All I can picture is some donkey sportin’ a fine piece of American head gear to protect himself from falling rocks… and thinking to himself, “Damn, but I look good!” "We'll chase them like rats across the tundra." |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Thanks Eldest for reading and commenting yann |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Dear Alison, Thanks, you are soo pertinent and true, thanks for the kind comment. yann |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Thanks seconhandreamer for the supportive and kind comment. yann |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Thanks Andrew, it was a good laugh with a very beautiful humor of yours, I imagined the funny scene and you are quite an artist. regards yann |
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Bob K Member Elite
since 2007-11-03
Posts 4208 |
Nice poem, Yann, I'm still enjoying it. A few fine points and some associations, if you're interested. I like the wooden shop. Use or discard as you will. A lot of stores in that area are made of adobe, and that's a pretty interesting material, a bit like mud, a bit like plaster. They call the porches down there, which a lot of the building have "portals," with an accent on the second syllable. You'd think they were talking about doors, but they're not. The classy shirts, a lot of then, have snap closures instead of buttons, and have some embroidery. A lot of the jewelry down there is turquoise and silver, made by the indians, and is locally known as "pawn." A lot of those stores used to be trading posts, and the Indians used to pawn jewelry to get cash money. It may be possible that "during eight hours" in lines five and six may be the carry over of the use of the French "pendant huit heures." In English, the proposition would be, "for eight hours." They used to take burros down the Canyon wall, smaller and more sure-footed than donkeys — they are a kind of small donkey. I'm told — because the trails are very narrow indeed. If memory serves correctly, it would take moire than 8 hours to go down and come back. I'm sure others could give you a better idea. Was it stolen "from" the car is more likely, suggesting that somebody stole it and took it away, out of the car. Stolen "in" the car might suggest that the car was indeed the place of theft, but that it might still be there. American thieves and French thieves are probably a complete puzzle to each other, a poem in itself, now that I think about it. Abandoning it on the "track" might be understandable to many of my friends, but I found myself thinking that you may have taken a side-trip to the horse-races, which happen at "the track." Dog Races happen in my experience at "the dog track." You may also be unaware of the American habit of giving work-horses and donkeys and the like old hats to wear. You can see them occasionally in some of the old classic movies, for example, I seem to recall a horse wearing a hat in Sergeant York, during the early part of the movie. Often these are straw hats with cut-out places for the ears, but sometimes you will get an old stetson or the like. Used to get, more likely. Just a few more details of American life. Here are the names of two old brands of American chewing tobacco, Red Man and Mail Pouch. Many bars used to have low brass cuspidors for folks who chewed tobacco to spit up their tobacco juice into. They kept the large wad of tobacco, about the size of a walnut, jammed in the pouch of a cheek, and would spit the saliva into the brass cuspidors. I never quite understood how you could drink whiskey or beer around such a lump of tobacco. The practice, by itself I think, may have accounted for the difficulty in establishing the wine industry in the United States for so long. Just a bag full of odds and ends for a french friend. Best wishes, Bob Kaven. |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hello Bob, a very cultivated and interesting comment...You are a great and wise writer, loved it... yann |
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