A friend points out that ...

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Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> ... in 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
> 
> "Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of greatest power,
> the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the leader."
> 
> That's it, I'm really worried now ...

Why? Don't you see me? 
Here in the corner of your screen
I wear my  overcoat in the summer
and short sleeves in the winter time 
and I take holidays down at the bookies,
well, cause I'm a mathematical genius 
and I know how to pick a horse
but I'm a fool and I don't think fortune is a virtue.
The Village idiot, that's me,
in cyberspace just tramping round in the electronic
countryside
wearing a smile, but I've nothing much to say for one side
I'm the Village idiot and I'm complicated
Village idiot, sometimes I'm but a simple mind
A Village idiot, I do know something
But I'm just not saying 
Don't you I'm onto something
Can't You can see it?
Can't  you can see it in my posts?
Sometimes they are happy
Sometimes they are foolish
and sometimes they cry
Oh I'm the village idiot, and I'm complicated
Village idiot, with such a simple mind
Village idiot, I must know something
But I'm just not saying 
Well you all know I'm  onto something
You can see it in my posts
Sometimes they are so happy
and sometimes they are just ghosts,
attenuated ghosts, 
like MLK or HDT, to Doug's cry for justice in practice,
or Blake's Religion UNdeconstructable.

I received the  memo. No gifts are to be given to teachers.
Holiday "good wishes" are to suffice, 
well, I always thunk there wuz no vale in educational
abstracts, 
perhaps my teacher taught me well, 

SO, thank you all, and happy happy joy joy,  and peace

Your student in cyberspace, 

the village idiot that's complicated,  

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