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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Thoreau

let the riptide flow where it will

let night turn into day

you can fight them if you want but you'll only get tired

tired of driving

tired of sleeping

tired of bleeding

Author's Note

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." - Thoreau

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Pete . . . this is a killer poem which I love. I have to share something I just wrote to Paul Bell in a private msg . . . I may regret sharing something so politically inflammatory, but it's so connected to what you're saying in this poem . . . always LOVE what you have to say! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

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Trump may be the most mind-boggling a*****e that has ever come along in politics, but that f****r has taught me to be more in love with the chaos that is democracy in America. I've actually learned to love a few of my Trump-loving friends lately, even tho I think their political views need to be flushed. Gotta love it. Why fight it? We're all a bunch of independent f***s & my 64th b-day (never been married, never had kids, never had a cell phone, many more . . . ) will be coming up on Independence Day (July 4th) . . . so how can I not love the wild dumbass spirit in this fucked up country?

[Pete]

couldn't agree more. we keep sending different clowns into the same circus. isn't the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? you can't make this stuff up. truth really is stranger than fiction. maybe that's why people love it - everything else sucks worse - communism, dictatorships, etc. like the old gamblers of the wild west would say, "the wheel may be crooked, but it's the only wheel in town." ... :)

[John the Baptist]

Yes, the Thoreau quote is quite relevant. There will be things you can't control, so one had best learn how to let them alone. In the long run, you may find they weren't really that important.

[Pete]

it's hard to fight against what the flesh wants to do. takes a different kind of strength (inner). you know what happens when you thrust a stick into a hornet nest and when you play with fire ... :)