6227. HEARD IT ALL BEFORE

HEARD IT ALL BEFORE

Hard as it is to grow flowers, I shan't quit trying

this quickly. I've potted the soil and watered the

trough  -  now all I do is to wait? Some handbook

or other tells me to beware  -  the wintry bugs and

spiders of cold weather. The moist rot of too much

moisture, and the dry rot of neglect. Sure, sure, 

I've heard it all before.

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There's a slow passage along the tracks down this 

way  -  the people who know of it cut through the 

weeds. Nobody ever says a word (though I

just said I'd heard it all before).