The "Font"-ain of Youth

       Late night and eye sight can produce funny language to me at this age.  Reading of a favorite poet Stanley Kunitz, I came across the following line:

               Early in his adult life, Mr. Kunitz spent time on a 100-acre
               herb farm in Connecticut which was destroyed when a
               tomato blew through.

I laughed heartily.  I've commented before that an "r" and an "n" next to one another in print can appear a lot like an "m."  Once I saw the "m," it was easy to breeze by the "d" seeing it as a "t."

       It's a lot more exciting and fun when a tomato blows through and destroys a farm.  The thing must have been enormous and impelled by a wind of at least tornado force!