Companion to immediately prior post “Do the Hurckle-Durckle”

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Recorded Reading (1:48): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y7jqpt8dakyya4f7xjwek/Resting-on-a-Rung.mp3?rlkey=8xgz4njrry4q6w7nsci70uqzx&dl=0

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Resting on a Rung

While it important is to work,
Responsibilities ne’er shirk,
It is important also to
Keep recreation well in view

A nose always the grindstone on
Calluses appear upon
Unless it sometimes you rescind
And get that nose into the wind

If every time you are alone
You work your fingers to the bone
Only one outcome can you see:
Your fingers will most bony be!

Though one must hustle, it is true,
A future bright to put in view
It pays us to remember how
Wonderful life is here and now

We must work more than just full time
If we that ladder wish to climb
But, other evenings, have a care
Somebody close might want us there

Too many folk mistake for love
The earning some more money of
With which to purchase something slick —
How long since you took a picnic

Sat together ‘neath the trees
For an hour or two of ease
Or strolled together somewhere nice
And kissed them once, then kissed them twice?

Let not your future striving for
Motivate you to ignore
The blessings cash may never buy
Which more closely about you lie

It must be said, for it is true,
That if it is unable you
Are now to recognize them, then
You will still be unable when

Those blessings come at higher price
But somehow never seem as nice
In all the most important ways
As those on which today you gaze

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working to contribute to her society, however, seven days a week.

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