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Child, Rear Your Head and Laugh

November 23, 2010
By tofufu GOLD, Bellevue, Washington
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tofufu GOLD, Bellevue, Washington
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Favorite Quote:
"Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood." -Donald Justice

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When you are young they will ignore
Such a gesture of arrogance you see:
Once gaining years you only add onto your belt of
Supposed integrity and all that tension
Lines that draw back of any chance of
Carelessness and imperfection
A silvered head bent down is in deep thought though
You have only stopped to take a nap
They are reverent and hawkeyed-
Ready to pounce on the slightest quiver of a snore
Or the fumbling of old age,
So child,
Throw your vanities down the drain
Laugh

© Josiah H., Scarsdale, NY

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