A homage to Steve and Glenda Medlin's cattle
A warning sign marking a boundary of Area 51. Ponder its metaphysical implications a bit. Image found here.The border of "Area 51", actually the border of the Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range, is marked, but these markings vary from one location to another. . . . The most critical part to civilian visitors, near Groom Lake Road and throughout Tikaboo Valley, has the poorest markings. This consists of orange metal fence posts, but no fence, spaced about 50 feet apart. (The reason there is no fence is because the local rancher has the right to let his cattle graze within the Nellis Range.) The posts are difficult to see in the daytime, and impossible to see at night.
Blind to orange but possessors of Eyes-
--from the Sky Shadows Area 51 FAQ page
Only secrets, of knowledge but no
wisdom, these cows boldly go where few
have gone before. Having no grammar
for their own world, much less that whose bourn
they cross, Groom Lake's salt-flat language stays
unspoken. The Government trusts them.
If they could tell us what they've seen, then
they'd have to kill us. But the Medlins
ship them to slaughter, thence to our plates.
Some of us have consumed steak secrets.
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Spring break has arrived, the Mrs. continues to improve, and I have my head enough above water so that I'm able to write bad poetry. My gain, my reader's loss. (If anyone is interested, by the way, this got started by way of hearing an interview on NPR with Trevor Paglin and some subsequent rereading about Area 51.)
The Mrs. and I will be hanging out for a few days, but my hope is that "regular" blogging will resume shortly. Thanks, again, for the kind wishes and for dropping off virtual casseroles. They have sustained me much more than I can adequately convey to you.
