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07.01.2021

Summer is here

And I’m quite afraid

That if I cut my beard

A high price will be paid

See I’ve grown it all winter

And held on through the spring

If I let it go now

There’s no retrieving this thing

As fall breezes blow

I’ll chill and I’ll holler

And sweaters look better

With a beard at their collar

No, I’ll let it keep growing

Through this season of heat

And by the start of next winter

My beard will be sweet

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06.30.2021

The time has come for a laundry day

Though I can’t estimate what this pile weighs

And if I had waited just a single day more

I couldn’t have lifted it off of the floor

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06.29.2021

Rabbit, rabbit

There below

In the brush

Your colors show

In the ferns

Your padded feet

Casting dew

Your movements fleet

Rabbit, rabbit

Who knows when

I might meet you

Here again

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06.28.2021

The “Triangular Dancer”

She’s known ‘round the place

With isosceles hair

Equilateral face

And a dress that is known

Just as soon as it’s seen

To be an example

Of the truest scalene

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06.25.2021

I’ve been keeping my eye

On the Westminster Jewel

I’ll make sure no one takes it

By hand or by tool

I am sharp at my post

And I’m nobody’s fool

I’m the official First Watchman

For the Westminster Jewel