No connection, but here are a couple of old verses that crept out of the archives.
READ MY QUIPS
It wouldn’t be fit for paper and ink
If I were to say what really I think.
But poems reword the grissle and grit,
Pleasing the palate with wisdom and wit.
So I’ll clean up my thoughts with rhyme and a wink;
And you’ll think what I’m thinking
Is what you think that I think.
—Mack Hoover 8/8/01
MAKING WHISTLES: CRAFT OR ART
Whistlemaking (be it art or craft)
Is putting holes in a hollow shaft.
Do it well and you’re called a crafter,
And you’ll be remembered ever after.
Poor ones they’ll hang (once you depart),
And then refer to them as art.
–Mack Hoover, Feb 21, 2002 –