Thursday, July 29, 2021

13,731. FEED THE HUNGER

FEED THE HUNGER 
(a country life)
The elm tree bristled as it fell
to the ground. The high blue
above looked suddenly down.
Sadness was felt, and I walked
away. Starve a fever, feed a
cold : I think that's what gets
said. I mutter, instead, 'Feed
the hunger, bury the old.'
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Someone had tipped the John
Deere tractor, over and onto its
side -  That's a nearly impossible
task, I knew, because their
track and center of gravity are
so wide  -  I knew it had to have
been tipped by a machine.
-
Two old guys were looking at the
ancient Buick which was settled 
in the yard  -  paths of  debris and 
a hundred things of old. Starve 
that fever, feed that cold?

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