By Barry Schatz

     Being one that likes to travel, David Bargeron of Herron Michigan was crossing The High Plains of Texas a few years back.  It was late at night when he heard a poem on the radio titled, The Men Who Don't Fit In.  He was so moved by the poem that when he returned home, he visited the Alpena Library and searched the internet for the poem.  To his disappointment, he didn't find it.

     On a future adventure, David visited the New Presque Isle Lighthouse in N.E. Michigan.  He was enjoying the warm summer evening on the porch swing of the 1905 house when a woman sat down beside him.  They struck up a conversation and she turned out to be a school teacher from Pennsylvania.  When she said she taught computers, David told her about his attempt at finding poem he had heard in Texas.  She asked for his address and he wrote it down on a matchbook cover.  A week later, David received a copy of the poem by Robert W. Service.  His new friend had found it on the internet and sent him a copy.  The following is the poem.