Last year my February 1 post anticipated Groundhog Day with a poem that mentioned the crop damage that groundhogs do by tunneling under a field and nibbling the roots of crops. Today's post was provoked by an "Urban Jungle" item concerning groundhogs in Tuesday's Washington Post.
When I was growing up (on a farm near Indiana, Pennsylvania) Punxutawney Phil was merely a local celebrity. But the TODAY show and Bill Murray's 1993 film (showing at AFI in Silver Spring tomorrow evening) changed all that. Here, in syllable-square stanzas -- based on the legend and recent climate change developments -- are several groundhog-day comments:
Today's myth
passes, the
world moves on.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
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