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Curve-billed Thrasher
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I was surprised at how well the birds in Bill and Alice’s yard seemed to
get along. Three or four were often pecking simultaneously at different
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1 week ago
Nonetheless I love all the girls. Even the ones who aren't Hot are very attractive.
ReplyDeleteThis may not be a perfect poem, but still I consider it a little gem!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed a little gem, Ron!
ReplyDeleteIt's melancholy though - or pessimistic - or something.
It's the opposite of the words I erected as my desktop pic the other day - "Desiderata".
Yours is the antithesis of it - we need both to keep a healthy balance, I suppose. :-)
I expect a lot of people would tend toward your message, but I've been listening/reading Desiderata since before the first hippie was born and it has the unfortunate effect on me that most cliches eventually cause. The overuse of great literature is often that way--some people still can't stand to hear Robert Frost's best-known poems Again!
ReplyDeleteMelancholy is my middle name. No, that can't be true, my middle initial is "C"! Maybe it stands for "communist", you think?