Where are the five Swans now?

When the last update was given on the great journey our protagonists were a trifle chilled and moldy, not exactly comfortable but going unabashed down the road of great promise.

Today they are just not sure they are going to make it to that hallowed state of permanent things.  Indeed, one of them was remarking to me about Ozymandias and sphinxes and that really that there are no permanent things and that it’s a farce to go for that and that they should go to Hollywood or better Vegas and bill themselves as the Five Swans and see how it goes, that they have at least as good a chance of making it there as they do in the quest for permanence.

The five swans ASome gourd enthusiast was telling me that for a gourd to cure properly it needs to have had 120 days of 80 degree temperatures.  These guys are lucky if they got seventy days of eighty degree temperatures.  There is only one where the body or neck does not have a crack and the walls are not at all substantial as compared to most of the gourds I’ve gotten from the American heartland.  Hearing that they might not have what it takes made this group of gourds agitated.  Made them question the meaning of being.  They are turning into angry philosophers on their way back to the earth.  ‘Ozymandias!’, one keeps muttering, over and over, as if there was something that must be understood by the listener.

 

One thought on “Where are the five Swans now?

  1. Who knew these swans were such literati/philosophers. Maybe if they were burned they could rise from the ashes like “you know who” or, if they chose they could raise their voices quintetwise in Swansong.

    Ah, but they had such promise.

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