The Hertz Lady and a Poem

I’m downloading version 4.2 of DiMeMa’s contentDM Acquisition Station to match our update of the online database to the same version.  It’s a sizable download and it’s taking a while.  But in the mean time I notice that I got a quote in to Andy’s website.  My quote is here–a story from my days as a software retailer– and the story I responded to ("The Hertz Lady") is here.

From George Ure over at the Independence Journal:

"Experts say this is the worst day of the whole year –
a sort of cosmic bummer when all the bills come in from the holidays
and more.

 

But not to fret – In the event you’re bummed, let me share this
short bit of poetry/advice from Poet of the Yukon,
Robert
Service – long one of my favorites – because it can really help:

 

The Quitter

When you’re lost in the Wild, and
you’re scared as a child,

And Death looks you bang in the
eye,

And you’re sore as a boil, it’s
according to Hoyle

To cock your revolver and . . .
die.

But the Code of a Man says:
"Fight all you can,"

And self-dissolution is barred.

In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy
to blow . . .

It’s the
hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.

"You’re sick of the game!" Well,
now, that’s a shame.

You’re young and you’re brave and
you’re bright.

"You’ve had a raw deal!" I know
— but don’t squeal,

Buck up, do your damnedest, and
fight.

It’s the plugging away that will
win you the day,

So don’t be a piker, old pard!

Just draw on your grit; it’s so
easy to quit:

It’s the keeping-your-chin-up
that’s hard.

It’s easy to cry that you’re
beaten — and die;

It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;

But to fight and to fight when
hope’s out of sight —

Why, that’s the best game of them
all!

And though you come out of each
gruelling bout,

All broken and beaten and
scarred,

Just have one more try — it’s
dead easy to die,

It’s the keeping-on-living that’s
hard.

Source:
Gutenberg eText of
Service’s "Rhymes of a Rolling Stone"  And, if you don’t know about all
the fine works at the Project Gutenberg site, and you haven’t flashed them into
your head with a Vortex Reader from the
www.HalfPastHuman.com  folks (see the bottom of the page), you’re
missing a fine opportunity for self improvement."