Issue #86 — Tears Spring Eternal
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth
For those who follow sports talk radio (seriously, who doesn’t?) there was a lot of chatter today about the Canucks recent milestone: finishing 1st overall in the Western Conference. This is NOT to be confused with Western Conference Champions. THAT is an honour reserved for the team that wins the first 3/4 of the NHL playoffs and will represent the Western Conference in the Stanley Cup finals.
If I have lost you already — apologees.
I spend the better part of my days lifting retarded heavy things and my lifeblood the past few years has become the benign chitter of sports radio. I find both the pedantic callers and the equally robust bloviations from the radio hosts to be pleasantly time-consuming.
The fact is that the prognosticators had this team pegged to win it all right from the get-go. The plan was in place. Then the plan was executed with Aryan precision. And now we sit and argue mustard seeds all day. Gone are the by-gone days of crying over unmoved mountains. In fact, one might wonder about a possible spring-flood. After-all, there is a vast reservoir of tears yet to spilled over this team. A vast reservoir that has accumulated over 40 years of pain, dissapointment and defeat.
One can’t help but think of a sweet spring rain that might follow a victory of this aforementioned Stanley Cup finals. The by-product of one million Canucks fans weeping tears of joy.
Either that or the VPD better get rain slickers to accompany their riot gear.
–Joseph F. Delamar