Day 124. The Adventure Of Government Double-Speak And Red-Tape And Confusion In Triplicate.

I’m getting too old for this legal-beagle stuff
I’m far too old to play rough and tough…
I think I need to take a drive,
a long, long top-down wind-in-the-face drive
up into the mountains up into their blue haze
winding my way up into the ancient of days
into the beginning of time where life begun
to pause there to stop there and listen to the wild songs sung
beyond all the pine-cone popping, wind-rustling silence
of the forest primeval and its needle clad giants
where I breathe in fountains of crisp, evergreen air and
where I exhale the smut and smog of city streets and
watch ghostly deer flicker in and out of the trees…
and there take my rest in a land that’s still free.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~©susan williams 2016