– Horatio Algeranon's parody of Simon and Garfunkel, “The Boxer”
I am just a Watter boy
Though my story’s often told
I have squandered my credibility
For a blog that’s full of mumbles and preposterousness
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the BEST
When I left my sense and my faculties
I was much less than a Roy
In the company of skeptics
In the quiet of a surface station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the grills and blacktop
Where the NOAA people go
Looking for the bias only they would know
Lie la lie …
Asking only blogger’s wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers,
Just a come-on from Al Gore up on Sixth Avenue
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there
Lie la lie …
Then I’m laying out my winter posts
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the Arctic Sea ice summers aren’t bleeding me
Bleeding me, going home
On the internet stands a blogger
And denier by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev’ry graph that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger, with no shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”
But the blogger still remains
Lie la lie …
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