Dead Reckoning

Dead reckoning

I’ve been where I have been, I reckon. And I

reckon I’m going to be where I need to be.

Something new, I reckon, I’ll see. Something

old, should I live long enough, I reckon I’ll be.

Birds and bees, planes, trains and automobiles—

some things are natural, some things man-made.

I reckon it is whatever it happens to be. I reckon you

and I is proper English, unless a preposition precedes,

changing you and I appropriately into you and me.

I reckon fewer is correct for countable nouns as

less applies to uncountable nouns (i.e. 15 or fewer

items; less freedom ). Now here’s a conundrum—

I never understand the term, dead reckoning even

when sufficiently defined for me. For you see, only

the living need directional positioning afforded by

dead reckoning to determine where they are presently

and where they need to be. Just another irony of life,

I reckon. I see that in order to explain what should

be plain to comprehend logically, seems that I have

wound up with one fewer line at the end here, and

could have probably tried better to express far less.

Chris Hanch 10-18-19