Monday Muse: Omentown Ballad

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Dear Readers,

  My work lately focuses on Port End, Maine, a town that I talked about a little bit in my last "Day in the Life" post.  The end of that story will get posted in the middle of this week, but for today I wanted to relate something of a "country" song about this "Omentown."

  I think what is really important about this particular case in anachronism is that the omens in Port End arise from strange abnormalities in the same physical laws that give rise to Augury and my work here at the University.  If the laws exist, then there are time streams where they behave a little funny.  Omentown is from one of those time streams.

Always,

Dr. John Skylar
Chairman
Department of Anachronism
University of Constantinople

Wan'drin' out by the bay

With my back to the sea 
I saw Old Man Osprey

And he asked me to tea

It's not strange where I'm from

It's just life and it's sane

Where you know what's to come

Right here in Port End, Maine

Other day saw me a bear

And I knew right away

That from out of nowhere

I'd find luck, clear as day

It's not bad nor first rate; 
It's just part of the deal

Where the world shows our fate

In Maine, where omens turn real