Indeed.
Put out be E. Madciff in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
That's Chocolate Town, of course.
About fifteen minutes from my house.
Chocolate Town, I mean. Bellefonte is about an hour north of here.
If you drive like a lunatic, I mean. And who doesn't?
Talk about sanitizing the ugly truth.
The only thing missing is a swan.
Floating magisterially over the water filled with heavy metals and radioactive isotopes.
Romanticize the oncogenicity away.
waiting to drag some unsuspecting person to their radioactive watery demise...bloody swans.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you've seen some of the nasty versions of "Leda and the swan" out there.
ReplyDeleteSwan-rape is rarely pretty.
I think even in Yeats's poem on this the swan (who is Zeus in disguise) is described as holding Leda by the neck with its bill as it's doing the nasty to her.
The ancient Romans knew swans were bad eggs.
Pun intended.