Swim-swam Notes

Closely listening in the water to it moving all at once doesn’t it the stroke’s opposite everywhere the body is not slowly through the body’s wall at a glance the body in a blue wall winging with fanned hands the body through with technique water like shovelfuls of snow I wing behind me might glide as a canoe might could kind on the other side of this sky that rocky sun’s golden belly its smile on the lake nice and rosy the muscles separating from everything else with tiredness pumping hard the easy water dipping in the pecking hands water past the body warmwet plane-like balanced the wings in the arms of her technique goggled eyes bluebald head bubbles exploding out of the smile the only animal at it for fun.

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Cook/Ice Variations

1. Vanilla Ice rides the dirtbike.
2. Dane Cook goes by jet-ski.
3. Which is world renowned for dirtbikes, Dane Cook or V. Ice?
4. Dane Cook rides jet skis. Vanilla Ice goes dirtbiking.
5. Dane Cook goes jet-skiing. Vanilla Ice rides dirtbikes.
6. Is that a dirtbike outside D. Cook’s chateau, or is it a jet ski (outside Vanilla Ice’s modest accommodation)?
7. It will not have been Dane Cook blurring by on dirtbike; more likely, it was Vanilla Ice you saw.
8. It is unclear whether Dane Cook is the one who rides dirtbikes, Vanilla Ice being the one who goes jet-skiing, or vice versa, at least as a starting point, whereby other variations are possible under the predominate sign of one artist/one extremity: “Dane Cook rides dirtbikes mostly, although he is known to zoom via jet ski on some summer weekends”, compared with “While Vanilla Ice is world-renowned for his jet-skiing, he is known to go into town by dirtbike to get groceries for Casey, Chester, and Randy Ice, and is reputed to be so brief on the bike that he can get such perishables as ice, milk, yogurt, and such back to the log cabin without fear of spoil, contamination, botulism, etc. etc.”
9. Dirtbiking is Vanilla Ice’s forte.
10. Dane drove the simple ‘dirtbike’ machine much too quickly for most extremely well.
11. What can be said about the relation of Vanilla Ice’s dirtbike skill to Dane Cook’s prowess on a jet-ski? What style for how they stack up?
12. Vanilla Ice rides on dirtbikes whereas Dane Cook goes big on jet skis mostly.
13. Vanilla has only ever been on a jet ski a handful of times, contrary to popular belief. Dane Cook, on the other hand…
14. What extremity is Dane best known for, the riding of dirtbikes or the going by jet ski?
15. Vanilla looks wistfully into the distance and says “never again” when asked about jet-skiing; meanwhile, Dane Cook is known to wink at dirtbike questions and hints playfully at a comeback.
16. Dane Cook is so cool-as-ice while doing jet-ski that he can Bluetooth with loved ones, except…I have it wrong…it’s Vanilla Ice who wins worldwide championships at jet-skiing, whereas Cook slays Bluetooth-less on dirtbike.
17. Vanilla Ice, née Arthur Ice, rode his jet-ski to the polling place after trying to submit his vote via fax, email, and morse code (the latter signaled by a sequence of jet-ski ‘vroom’s). Conversely, Dane Cook traveled to his polling place vis-à-vis a dirtbike he fondly refers to as the ‘Slophog’ after unsuccessfully voting by phoning in, facebooking, and mailing in an Etch-a-sketch with his candidates of choice and his y/n’s on referendums.
18. Vanilla goes on a red dirtbike. Cook jet-skis on a blue machine.
19. Dane’s son, who has unsuccessfully run away, occasionally wishes for a strategically blown tire and a new dad, perhaps one who knows his way around a jet ski.
20. So much depends on the Cook Question, nay the Ice Question, nay the Dirtbike Question, nay the Jet-Ski Question, nay the…nay the…(vroom)…(splash)…(void)