Couldn't help but read some of this through a political prism, Jill.
Post-Abbott, we may well be 'past the polka dot world' and empty singing
mantras. Feeling well shot of the blather/blether certain recent leaders
believed in and hope rivers have a chance to work again somehow.
Cheers,
Bill
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I want to touch the beholden
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> I want to hold your hand as though
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> Today it seems as though the rivers work.
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> So many of them, working in spite of us.
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> I can’t pretend those ideas can be laid
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> I want to lie down with you
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