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9) MORE COFFEE KLATSCHES,
MORE ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE CHANCELLORS
THAN ANYWHERE ELSE, MOST IMPOVERISHED
CLERICAL STAFF AND NO MORE CALYPSOS
John Muir had feelings.
That's what we remember him for.
You'd never call him crass.
He saw beauty in things.
He didn't go in much
For networking the coffee klatsches.
Once in his life he got to see a calypso.
He saw it up in Ontario.
Calypsos are extinct
In Canada's Holland Marsh now.
The sight of that calypso
Started him on his writing career
..... was the subject of his first published article.
Toward the end of his life
Muir said he had had two
Supreme experiences. One was
Meeting Ralph Waldo Emerson in Yosemite.
The other was seeing that calypso.
Muir didn't get to see another calypso.
..... wasn't outside enough, lived in the 19th century.
But he could have
Visited the site of the future UCSC campus.
He could have seen hundreds of them.
Calypsos survived there
Until at least 2001.
In 2001 just one remaining calypso
Flowered on the UCSC campus.
It seems that maybe the UCSC campus
Is the only university campus
Ever to have had calypsos.
..... never heard it claimed.
What other campus ever had them?
..... not easy to find an answer
Even on the internet.
In many places on the internet
It says that UCSC is interested
In biodiversity and environmental things.
Maybe that's mostly balderdash
And what's supremely important there
Is dropping names and networking the coffee klatsches.
Calypsos aren't very crass.
Maybe some of the greatest poobahs there
Have never gone outside to see one.
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