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The other day I was ideling slowly Listening to the song of a loom Moving along the water like an otter From boat ramp to main lake When I found myself in the duck blind of the marsh Where my hands fell upon my lanyard No corn nibbled by a mallard Could send one more shell into the Weatherby- A past where I sat on the bank By a deep TaneyComo Lake Learning how to quack and feeder call On my lanyard, a gift for a duck I had never seen anyone not use corn Or eat it if that’s what you do with it But that did not keep me from baiting One bag after another, I had corned a hole so me and the boys would limit out The ducks gave us their feathers and ******* And we gave them 2 ¾ 3 shot steel loads They cupped into the spread We lifted our guns to our shoulders Laid our sights onto their wings And then yelled out “cut em” into the quiet foggy air
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Oct 10, 2024
Oct 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM UTC
The Lanyard- After Billy Collins
The other day I was ideling slowly Listening to the song of a loom Moving along the water like an otter From boat ramp to main lake When I found myself in the duck blind of the marsh Where my hands fell upon my lanyard No corn nibbled by a mallard Could send one more shell into the Weatherby- A past where I sat on the bank By a deep TaneyComo Lake Learning how to quack and feeder call On my lanyard, a gift for a duck I had never seen anyone not use corn Or eat it if that’s what you do with it But that did not keep me from baiting One bag after another, I had corned a hole so me and the boys would limit out The ducks gave us their feathers and ******* And we gave them 2 ¾ 3 shot steel loads They cupped into the spread We lifted our guns to our shoulders Laid our sights onto their wings And then yelled out “cut em” into the quiet foggy air
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21/M/Pleasant Park
Oct 10, 2024
Oct 10, 2024 at 11:14 AM UTC
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