Saturday, August 27, 2022

Thoreau-ly August - doggerel about the heat

 

Lawrence Hall

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Thoreau-ly August

 

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation,”

Protested Thoreau in hopeless exasperation.

One would not enter into disputation

With a famous writer of great reputation

 

But

 

Alas that here our lives are rank perspiration!

 

-      From The Road to Magdalena, 2012

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