Friday, May 31, 2024

Summer time ain’t easy either May 22, 2012


 “Summer time and the living is easy,”

Only it ain’t, especially if you

Can’t stop and smell the roses,

Poor kids on rusted swings

In the church yard next door,

More free in their simply way

Than the hustlers and bustlers

With heads full of schemes,

If only I could rush out

And feel clean air again,

Cool or hot,

Breathe free when we

Spend our lives desperate

For something to happen;

It never does,

We all live school kids lives

Waiting for the school doors

To open and let us loose

Not to return until

After Labor Day,

I want to live my life

Over again

And I suspect you

Do, too,

Only we’ve both

Forgotten how.

 


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