Saturday, July 17, 2021

Two Rods and a ‘Sixth Sense’: In Drought, Water Witches are Swamped. (NYT)

 



Water witches are all wet;

how can anybody bet

on some rods waved at the ground

while the waver turns around?

Dowsing is baloney sliced,

plus a heist that is high priced.

It takes a special connoisseur

to locate any aquifer --

and always they are deep below,

and drilling to them is real slow.

By the time the work's complete,

the dowser ain't around to greet

an empty hole as dry as bone,

or help his victims pay their loan.

If you want to fight a drought

pray for rain and not a tout.  

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