The View from Here

A fable for our times (with apologies to Shel Silverstein)

By David Kamp and Joe McKendry

Once there was a guardrail …

and it

looked after

a

little boy.

And every day

the boy

would come

and

he

would

kick

its

beams

and scream at it

and curse at it

and tell the rail

that he would own it one day.

And the guardrail,

having guarded the boy

and protected the world from the boy,

was happy.

But time went by.

One day the boy came to the guardrail.

And the rail said, “Come, Boy, kick me again

and I shall stand strong against you

and remind you of what is right and what is good.”

“I am too big to have guardrails,” said the boy. READ ON