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Sun Feb-08-09 09:50 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 2/8/2009) |
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Fall Song
I can’t say for sure that I’ll always love you. I’ve started so many projects and finished so few, It’s less and less often now I open a book and read it through. But we’ll see. I won’t put up any parp about the infinite Or argue from predestination that we couldn’t ever quit. It wouldn’t do to swear we’ll never get tired, because I have to admit It could be.
Knives break, comfortable rocking chairs get so they creak, The air goes out of air-mattresses and canoes begin to leak. The Sheik gets too old to do it anymore—even the Son of the Sheik, Eventually.
So we’ll see, It could be That I’ll come to need total rest, Or walking past a foreign post office find I’ve forgotten your address, But on the other hand there’s really very little to be said for emptiness, So, yes, Let’s just see.
And if you want to know what I think, remember what I told you. All these doubts are a bill of goods I wouldn’t want to have sold you. I think that I may die not grabbing for life so much as Just groaning to hold you One more season.
Keith Waldrop
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Sun Feb-08-09 11:15 AM
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because that other bill of goods I purchased had no warranty anyway. :donut: :hi:
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:00 PM
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Sun Feb-08-09 11:27 AM
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:01 PM
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Sun Feb-08-09 11:49 AM
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3. Nothing lasts, does it? nt |
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:01 PM
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:03 PM
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no warranties, expressed or implied.
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:54 PM
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:08 PM
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8. Ohhhh, i love this one. |
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Edited on Sun Feb-08-09 12:09 PM by FedUpWithIt All
:-)
Promises never made never get broken. Because sometimes you just cannot imagine breaking the promise.
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:54 PM
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10. Hey, good to see you! |
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Hope all is well...
:hi:
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Sun Feb-08-09 12:56 PM
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11. Hoping the same for you. |
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:hi:
Baby has a little fever today but otherwise all is peachy.
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Sun Feb-08-09 01:02 PM
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Just beautiful!
Especially the last stanza...
Thank you!
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Sun Feb-08-09 01:07 PM
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