6025. I WAGER

I WAGER

Do me this favor, come to the river with me.

I wager it will change your life. I am the one

with the cloak of a martyr and the cap of a clown.

How can you avoid all that?

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Let me distribute the following : awareness of

the world around; good feelings for the rest of

Man; expressions of affection for Nature and

the animal kingdom. I harm nothing.

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Now it is 3PM. On this stupid highway, people

are fouling their nests  -  ten-cylinder Ram trucks,

a few with loaded beds and broken trees and branches,

loudly crowd the busy shoulder, trying to avoid 

the two who rear-ended each other.

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My shadow throws a hand across the roadway:

my charades make sense : the cloak of a

martyr and the cap of a clown.