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Happy Earth Day!
I feel the ground is warming As the winter chills subside I feel my life force stirring In this dark place where I hide I push one green shoot upwards As spring calls on me to grow I spread as I break free From my confinement down below As I am warmed and nourished So some tiny buds appear Inside I feel excitement As my destiny draws near My buds swell and burst open Now my waiting time is done My blossoms burst out brightly Glowing yellow as the sun And then one day each flower Turns to down, ready to fly Each seed prepares to leave me When a summer breeze sweeps by My seeds break loose and swirl off like small dancers in the air I watch them as they fly To search for their new home somewhere And I know that in springtime In whichever place they found They'll also feel the warming Of the bright sun on the ground AN - John Crowe and I chose Dandelion as a one word title and each wrote a poem with a 20 minute time limit
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Seriously though, that's not so funny when I'm 54 and reading things like this. I've worked - and paid into the the system - for my entire life. Never taken a dime from it. Never even had to collect unemployment benefits, fortunately. Now I get to get in line with others (like the VA refugees) trying to collect on promised benefits after I retire. Not that it is totally unexpected of course. Our "leaders" in government never met a pile of money that they could keep their hands off of, and SS and Medicare were a couple of the biggest. Still, "I told you so" isn't going to put food on the table or pay the doctor bills when (if?) I retire.
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I randomly when swimming after class today; and I got all my notebooks wet. Stupidity achievement unlocked. Intelligence questioned!