THE
EXPLOITS
OF THE ULTRA-HARRIERS
Matt remembered as a great Ultra-HarrierA is for the Alphabet
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As for me, oWillie, I have not had as spectacular a career as the other Ultra-Harriers,
2Which maybe would have been different if even one literary magazine had accepted one of the short stories I wrote in college,
3Which they didn’t,
4And maybe explains why I never finished my Great American Novel,
5And went with Harry instead.
6pBut not every Harrier has to be a big Success,
7qAnd I’m trying to set a good example in my own small way,
8By not really thinking about anything at all,
9Or caring about anything,
10Or taking responsibility for any of the things that are happening in my life,
11rBecause it’s easier to sit back and just let it all happen,
12And arrange to be out of town when Mort or Vicki calls,
13Because it’s also important for each and every Harrier to recognize when another Harrier is better at Harry’s Trinity,
14And not to take a chance on getting squashed by them,
15sEven if you’re still kind of deeply in love with one of them for some reason,
16Which is an important thing for everyone to know,
17Especially all the tlittle Harriers,
18Because the Way of Harry has come into its full glory now,
19And things will be like this for a long time,
20Until the world ends anyway,
21Unless it doesn’t,
22aWhich is unlikely,
23But even if it doesn’t, the Way of Harry may last for a couple of thousand years,
24bJust like the way of the one he replaced,
25cBecause it takes a pretty outrageous series of events to result in a new Way,
26dWhich almost always comes from the unlikeliest places,
27eFrom people who are the lowest of the low,
28Who have to get fired up enough to do something radically different,
29Which just isn’t the way things work anymore,
30fThanks to Harry.
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