Allen Tuckerwas an American artist... (wikipedia)
Our neighborhood has seen plenty of rain this year,
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.
So, we are probably right about on average for the year. It was just a tough way to get there.
The weather this year sure has been a challenge.
A lot of the romance of the West is in here.