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Street Roots • October 6-12, 2017
Food for thought
By Aileen McPherson
Kindness of the Heart.
Early morning still quiet,
Coffee brews, cat mews, birds sing,
while pans ring.
Eggs crack, sizzle, snap, bacon fries,
biscuits rise, as sounds and smells
make the dead arise.
Table set, jams and jellies, butter,
sugar, and cream.
Good morning, family
Did you have
sweet dreams?
Poetry
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By Jaison Kirk
Seagulls like kites on the wind pursued by darker birds
Crows swooping in, harassing them like the gulls, so are my words.
Harassed, heresy, heretic
Unsound, insane, lunatic.
I imagine things they say
Conversations with figments unseen.
The Necklace
by Avendor
I wear a necklace of fear
sometimes I forget that it’s there
when I am happy and so unaware
of the madness I’ve known all these years
And sometimes I feel pressing down upon me
when I am having a pleasant conversation
and I can dismiss it with the wave of the hand
watch it go from a tidal wave to a puddle
Or I can contemplate it all
so I can’t hear a damn word you say
and ponder doing something totally unexpected
that could horrify us both for god knows how long
You know I have so many lovely desires
a girl to love, a world to save, that is that
but how can I rightly do this
with this curse around my neck
How do you share health?
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staying active, eating
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Share your healthy habits
with family and friends. We
can all have better health
when we share it together.
health
Better health
together.
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