The Parts are Wearing Out

From the green fields of Normandy, we passed through the pale grass of the Loire Valley and then on to the stunted corn and limp sunflowers of Poitou. For the last twenty years, he has tended the vegetables, cut the grass, cut up the fallen trees, fixed the gutters, unclogged pipes… and made war on the ragondins (a giant water rat from South America that now infests rivers and ponds in Europe.) Then, after a long evening at the table, with wine, cigarettes, candles and conversation, we went to bed with the windows open (there is no air-conditioning) and heard the rumbling in the distance.

Author: Bill Bonner

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