Here's what he wrote:
"Practicing for next year's poetry contest: Roses are red, Violets are blue, coal is from heaven, and it is awesome too."
This inspired me to invite my fellow West Virginians to take part in an Acceptable Poem Contest in which we write pro-coal poetry that would be permissible to read aloud in public places in West Virginia. Here's what I came up with:
Once upon a midnight dreary,Any takers?
coal kept the lights on.
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From the fans of the GR in Middlebury, VT:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
Given all we do, for you and you and you,
please note the onerous, current regulations will suffice.
Now that's a real contender-thanks!
Here's another, with apologies to Wordsworth:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden hydraulic shovels
Radiant, gleaming in the sun.
Their mythic power moving earth by the ton.
Susan, that one could well be on its way to winning top honors!
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