Kilroy

Louis Untermeyer's Modern American Poetry, Modern British Poetry,
Harcourt Barce & World, Inc., 1958, p.657:

[Editor's note: An example of an unfaked epic spirit emerging from the war was the expression "Kilroy was here," scribbled everywhere by American soldiers and implying that nothing was too adventurous or remote.

KILROY
Also Ulysses once--that other war
(Is it because we find his scrawl
Today on every privy door
That we forget his ancient role?)
Also was there--he did it for the wages--
When a Cathay-drunk Genoese set sail.
Whenever "longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,"
Kilroy is there;
he tells the Miller's Tale.


At times he seems a paranoiac king
Who stamps his crest on walls and says, "My own!"
But in the end he fades like a lost tune,
Tossed here and there, whom all the breezes sing.
"Kilroy was here"; these words sound wanly gay,
Haughty yet tired with long marching.
He is Orestes--guilty of what crime?--
For whom the Furies still are searching;
When they arrive they find their prey
(leaving his name to mock them) went away.
Sometimes he does not flee from them in time:
"Kilroy was--"
(with his blood a dying man
Wrote half the phrase out in Bataan.)


Kilroy, beware. "HOME" is the final trap
That lurks for you in many a wily shape:
In pipe-and-slippers plus a Loyal Hound
Or fooling around, just fooling around.
Kind to the old (their warm Penelope)
But fierce to boys,
thus "home" becomes the sea,
Horribly disguised, where you were always drowned,--
(How could suburban Crete condone
The yarns you would have V-mailed from the sun?)--
And folksy fishes sip Icarian tea.
One stab of hopeless wings imprinted your
Exultant Kilroy-signature
Upon sheer sky for all the world to stare:
"I was there! I was there! I was there!"


God is like Kilroy; He, too, sees it all;
That's how He knows of every sparrow's fall;
That's why we prayed each time the tightropes cracked
On which our loveliest clowns contrived their act
The G. I. Faustus who was everywhere
Strolled home again, "What was it like outside?"
Asked Can't, with his good neighbors Ought and But
And pale Perhaps and grave-eyed Better Not;
For "Kilroy" means: the world is very wide.
He was there, he was there, he was there!
And in the suburbs Can't sat down and cried.

Peter Viereck (1916- ) Professor Emeritus Russian History
Born in New York City in 1916, Peter Viereck is the only
American scholar who has received Guggenheim Fellowships in both poetry and history. Viereck retired in 1987, His first book of poems, Terror and Decorum, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. He has also published extensively in political science and history.

Viereck served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Psychological Warfare Intelligence Branch in Africa and Italy, He earned two battle stars.

I Lobster, But Never Flounder‏

I was a cook and she was a waitress,

Down at Salty Sam’s Seafood Cafe.

And somewhere near the clam juice,

Or the seaweed salad,

Some little shrimp just lured her away.



Chorus:

Oh, I lobster, but never flounder.

He wrapped his line around her

And they drove off in his carp.

I lobster, but never flounder.

I octupus his face in,

He’ll only break her heart.



Well, I said, “Just squid and leave me

For that piano tuna,

If you want to trout something new.”

She was the bass I ever had.

Now my life has no porpoise.

Oh my fin, I love her.  Yes, I do.



Chorus:



Well, I tell you friends,

I swordfish she’d come back to me.

I’d show her a whale of a time.

I’ve kelpt her picture in my walleye just for the halibut.

I wonder if she’s kelpt my picture in her perch?



Now, I said “perch.”

Some of you out there are kind of looking at me like your losing your herring or something.

I’m getting a haddock though myself up here.

I think I’d bass quit seahorsing around or you folks will go into a state of shark.

If I get out of here alive it’ll be a mackeral.

“Frankly, Scallop, I don’t give a clam.”



Chorus:

General Conference

Kirsten wrote: Hey You Great Utah Family Members, 

Do any of you know if your stake has any General Conference tickets left? Our Spring Break coincides with Conference, so Jared took off April 2nd so he could take our girls up to a session, but our stake's allotment is already gone. Just wondering if any of you have a way to get tickets? Our stake's seems to go fast.

 Thanks, 
 Kirsten

Myrna wrote: We will check and find out if there is a way for us to get any. I don't know if any are left or not.


When was it that you were traveling through and stopping by?

The girl that Julie's girls are taking dancing from is Jessica Pay, from Santaquin. She has some connection with Lisa. She is Todd Pay's wife. He is the mayor of Moroni.

Kirsten wrote: March 24/25 and then March 30, 31, April 1 and leaving on Monday, April 2.  Speaking of which, how do we get tickets for conference?  And is it only 8+ for the conference center and ALL overflows or can I take the littler ones into overflow while Jared takes the girls to conference?

Kirsten

Grandma's House

Birthday Card

Todd wrote: We just received a birthday card for Hailey. Her birthday is in December. Is it possible that this card is for one of the other grandchildren?

Myrna wrote: Oh, good grief! And I did send her card in December. Yes, it is possible. It was to go to Sorina. I have lost my marbles. I wrote both Haily and Sorina on the same day on the calendar even though I know better. I am  so sorry. I did get Sorina's card to her today. We were invited for birthday cake. Just bring it back when you come and I will take care of it. I did fix the calendar! I still don't know what my problem is. . .maybe age?

Todd wrote: No problem. I'll bring it with me. 

Braden's Gift Money

Melanie wrote: I always make sure that your money you send goes in to Braden's bank account. I think he just forgets to thank you. He usually writes us his email, then prints off our emails to read later. I have sent his email. Received his email, then a little while later I sometimes get another email with, "Oh yeah, thanks for the package...." or, "Yes, I need...,"

 I sent his package several weeks ago and I ask every week if he has received his package. I still haven't heard.

Thank you for sending him money. I know he will appreciate it. He likes spending money. :)

Mel


Myrna wrote: You I trust. You are one of the most honest people I know. I know he always gets the money I send to you. The money I send in a card, however, I am never certain he gets. I remember the years of my two South American missionaries. Once, I sent Shawn three chocolate Easter bunnies. He got half of one and it had been cut in half through the paper. ;)


Melanie wrote: That is why I ask him every time I send him a package to tell me what was in the package. In the future, when sending letters put a photocopied picture of the Madonna and child on the envelope or package. The Latins are very superstitious and daren't open packages marked like that. I use different ones by Renaissance artists, as they are found in Latin America in most if the churches.
Thank you Mom. I know he appreciates.
Melanie

Myrna wrote: What a simple solution! I could have been using that all this time. :)

Todd will soon be in Utah

Todd wrote: I'm on my way to get you. Five more weeks.

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RE: From Myrna

Sounds good.  I think Michael's ward is at 11 also.  So we'll run home after church and change and then we'll be down around 3-3:30.

Oh one other question, my friend wants to order some strawberry plants but doesn't know what kind of plants are good.  Any recommendations?  I have no idea...

 Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:13 PM

To: Amy Gordon Trauntvein

It sounds wonderful! We will look forward to seeing you both. Our church is the 11 a.m. session.

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From: atraunt@columbus.rr.com
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:46:13 -0500

Very cute!  Wow that was a while ago, lol!  Are you and Leonard doing anything this coming Sunday after church?  I will be in Utah spending a few days with Michael and since he has school Mon-Fri and you are at the temple on Sat, we thought we'd come down on Sunday after we attend his ward, as long as you will be there that is.  Let me know if that works or not.

Thanks!

Amy

Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 1:02 PM
To: Amy Gordon Trauntvein
Subject: RE: From Myrna

And then there are those who wonder why I keep my old emails. What a fun memory.

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From: atraunt@columbus.rr.com
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:30:07 -0500

Thanks for the updated info…. Need to get those Christmas cards out.  J  Thank you for Hailey’s birthday card and $.  I will take her shopping this next week.  I’m sure she will be buying something pink with it!  Hailey had a good birthday today.  She got to go play with her best friend next door (she’s being begging to go play for weeks), opened her presents, went out to eat pizza and salad (her request), came home for cake and ice cream and is now watching WALLY (one of her presents) to finish off her big day.  Just thought you might want to know.  Thanks again for remembering her 3^rd birthday.  Love to you both!

Amy

Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject: Julie's mailing address

Jim and Julie Jones 

11705 East 21000 North

Mt. Pleasant, Utah, 84647

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Cook time: 1 Hr 10 Min
Prep time: 20 Min
INGREDIENTS
- 6 eggs
- 2 stick butter, room temperature
- 2 c flour
- 2 c sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 8 oz Philadelphia cream cheese
DIRECTIONS
Mix sugar and butter very well. Add cream cheese and then add eggs one at the time, and mix it again. Add flour, baking powder, vanilla and mix well and ready to ready to bake. Preheat oven to 350 F. Bake for abt 50 minutes or until golden brown.

It is good but it is RICH.

03/12/2006‏

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Just thought you might like to see how the kids are doing. Love you!

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