When first that canine Ziggy came to wreck my sweet content I felt assured that his attacks I’d slyly circumvent, For he was so unsubtle, he was hardly worth a scoff – But though I humbled him repeatedly, he just would not lay off. When first he came into my home, he was easily evaded […]
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On a walk again I just can’t wait to get on a walk again And smell some bushes for the news of all my friends And I can’t wait to get on a walk again On a walk again I just can’t wait to get on a walk again Kick up some dirt to leave
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Just a lazy Ziggy, got an old branch to chew Wadin in the creek, nothin better to do Dragonflies driftin over sparklin waves Catfish lyin doggo in their bankside caves Just a lazy Ziggy in the summertime You can wade in with me if you don’t mind the slime Tadpoles lip my toes, horseflies bug
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Last summer, I received a letter from the Miss Teen Beauty Pageant. The letter informed me that I was recommended for the pageant by someone anonymous. When I first received it, I threw it aside and didn’t look at it for a few days. I wasn’t interested in being in a beauty pageant. Still, the
The smell of a sun-warmed apricot transports me backwards in time, reliving a day spent picking fruit fresh from the tree with my great-grandmother as she regaled me with stories of living in a sod hut on the Colorado-Kansas border. Orphaned at an early age, she traveled west with her relatives, rode in a covered
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“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the
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