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I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been over two weeks since I\u2019ve lived a poem. Well maybe I have lived a few and just not posted about the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow it will be cold, 10C for May after days of 25C. I have trouble dealing with the cold, when it should be warm and I always have trouble dealing with rain, even though the garden is very dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also a have trouble dealing with this potential war we are in. This constant shelling of shit, this assault of assholes, this tyranny of turds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I go into my garden to hide in the green of the hosta or the wave of the ferns. I would become the robin if I could or the wild plum or even the grass that I weeded out yesterday between the primroses to escape this madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Primroses <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The poet, Sara Teasdale, fortunately died before the start of the second great war and we are now looking at a third great war that could happen anytime when we all will surely be annihilated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So sorry for the sadness. Cold does this to me. I will go now into my garden not to hide but to repair a leak in the hose with duct tape. I know there is no escape. There is only endurance. Would that I could find some sturdy binding to hold it all together. The effort though, without help, is often just too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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