When leaves fall from my tallest trees / I thank the wind that blows them free / of my yard way down below / and to someone else bestows / the task of providing them / with a proper requiem.
The Big Bang Everything started with THE BIG BANG Cosmologists all say— A universal birthday commencing a melee. It was in fact, far and away, the most outré flambé never seen, spreading out, until it reached today. Ill Health My friend Charlie gets the flu I always get bursitis. When those ills aren't aching us We both get "arthur-itis." Asthma troubles Carolann Tom gets stomatosis. My kids have all got nasty colds. My cows have brucellosis. Grandma—she got Lyme disease From ticks out in the woods. Marjorie was always sick; She's never felt too good. Health is such a fragile thing. Nothing's vital as it. Everybody wants it, but No one always has it.
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Looking Back I'm in this restaurant and look out the window and what in the world do I see? It's dark outside and some idiot out there is looking right back at me. His shirt and pants are just like mine and so is the hair on his head. He waves his arms and I wave mine but I can't quite hear what he said. Then he motions for me to come out while I motion for him to come in. He wasn't around here when I arrived; I wonder where he has been. A numbskull for sure I think to myself. The nitwit acts like a mime. We look at each other and shrug our shoulders and leave at the very same time.
