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Does JC fancy himself a modern day Robert Frost?

Excerpt from link below.

https://hawkandhandsaw.unity.edu/hemlock/

"Rural Northerners know one hemlock from another, even though city people might get nervous about a hike through the hemlock woods."

Robert Frost wrote,

“The way a crow

Shook down on me

A weight of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.”

..."The answer is deeper and more interesting – it takes us into the minds of the American colonists, and even further back to the Saxon occupiers of England more than a thousand years ago. The Anglo-Saxons’ name for the poisonous streamside weed was hemlike, a combination of “hem” (a border or margin) and “lik” (a leafy plant) – literally a “leek” that grows on the “hem” of the land. The plant was notable for its wildness and its ill-will towards humans – it grew on wet wasteland unfit for human gardening, encroached on productive fields, and poisoned their browsing cattle. Other plants were beautiful, blessed, obedient to the human hand, helpful in our God-given work to improve the Earth and make it a garden. Other plants lived under our care and settled happily on our fields and forests. This hemlock was otherwise – a contrary creature growing in useless and accursed places, resistant to our care, deceiving our cattle, and contributing only death. The hemlock plant epitomized evil."

"The British newcomers to North America found the poison hemlock herb growing here; they called it what it was and regarded it the same way as had their forebears. They found the hemlock tree problematic, though, because it didn’t grow in Europe. It was clearly a conifer, and back in Britain any conifer was loosely called a “fir,” sometimes even the indigenous Scots pine. But how to distinguish the new species from the true fir, a familiar timber tree that grew on both continents? To choose a name, the British did what they had done a few centuries earlier when England began importing Baltic wood for ships and buildings. The fine tall timber of Latvia and Prussia was a “fir” of a variety unknown in Britain, and so they had called it “Prussian fir,” “pruce fir,” and eventually “spruce.” In like manner, this new “fir” of the Americas became “hemlock fir,” or “hemlock pine.”

"They called the tree “hemlock” because it was accursed. Other conifers milled out as clean, clear boards and timbers; this new wood, compared to pine and spruce, was rough-textured, splintery, and tended to warp. Other conifers grew on broad uplands and slopes where the human hand could be turned to productive lumbering and farming; this contrary tree seemed to prefer cold gullies, northern slopes, and terrains that resisted cultivation, wild marginal landscapes hostile to the civilizing mission of the farmer. In the world of trees it was a perverse sinner living in a godless place . . . just like the poison hemlock in the world of plants."

Maybe a (dog dies/died) Suicide weekend coming up for others who have cast lots and ended with a "dog throw (snake eyes?)

Symbolism will be their downfall.

Crow shook down on me.

Weight of snow.

Change of mood.

A day I rued.

One can assume in a fairytale spun in Wonderland there is a Crow (Hag/Witch)who is always shaking someone down with the help of Snow-White and the Seven dwarves. In this Wonderland only Sheep eat the poison Apples from the Witch.

https://hawkandhandsaw.unity.edu/hemlock/