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You have often chided me
(Gently most times, though
sometimes my diffidence
Is sufficient to permeate
your imperturbability)
About liv..
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There’s no arguing that
idealism has its place,
For if it does not flower,
bloom, and spread its seeds
As the dying dandelion casts
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Now
that is a house befitting a man of stature,
He
said while surveying his new home,
His
bride,second in a series of dark haired beauti..
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I had been, through much of my
youth,
Under the care and tutelage of
my Uncle Virgil,
He being the sole remainder of
my father and his br..
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It’s perfect nonsense to suggest that it,
whether venal or mortal,
Came to lightwith fanfare and hullabaloo,
All but taking out a thr..
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She is not the Earth Mother,
no archetype of maternal bliss
(As if you’d come here
hunting such a thing.)
Her stock in trade is
cap..
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I
knew a couple, in that once upon a time
Where
fecundity was a going concern in our circle of friends,
Who’d
lost another child mi..
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Well, some you lay, and some you
marry,
(As if womankind is some thing
To be sifted, sorted, and graded
Like so many eggs or lima beans)..
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i.
Such is their reward, then,
This graceful bridge which bisects the lake at Bemus Point,
Not far from the spot where Bishop Vincent..
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You see,It's quite simple;Fate will always b***h-slapThose folks who can't leave well enoughAlone
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