To be honest, Christine, the whole conversation leaves me standing at the bus stop after midnight ... in one ear, out the other ... other work to do rings more true ... I appreciate sincere intentions and communion among concerned individuals - must have value in the whole scheme of things - so much of it is beyond my grasp - feeling pretty much like 'dust on the wind' ...:
If a single newspaper deters you from optimism to pessimism, then give up the subscription.
To be honest, Christine, the whole conversation leaves me standing at the bus stop after midnight ... in one ear, out the other ... other work to do rings more true ... I appreciate sincere intentions and communion among concerned individuals - must have value in the whole scheme of things - so much of it is beyond my grasp - feeling pretty much like 'dust on the wind' ...:
sandscape
a cold wind blows
in shantytown . . .
tumbleweeds cavort
with barren sands . . .
sad old shacks barely stand
broken down -- boarded up . . .
worn dry bones collapse to dust
horizons' twilight skies . . . .
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