Strength in Numbers, Strength in Strength

Yellow elephants stand at the ready.  They are strong and sturdy.  Their trunks are raised and lowered.  Ringing the muddy lot next to the bypass around Danville, the yellow elephants have babies.  The bigger ones tower over the smaller ones.  Mouths agape, the yellow metal creatures seem to be frozen in mid sentence.  Side by side they stand spreading the rumor of their strength around the line, encouraging even the weakest to be strong.  A graphic demonstration of strength in numbers, they stand together.  All of us are more than one of us and none of us can stand alone.  The machine elephants wait for someone to crank their engines to make them demonstrate their strength.  Humans don't have to wait.  People all over the country are gaping their mouths to demonstrate their communal strength.  Like the yellow elephants, they are finding strength in numbers and are ready to crank it up and do the work at hand.