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--- poetry:start [2017/05/29 00:30]
bpaddock I Want A Do Over
+++ poetry:start [2022/09/12 01:48] (current)
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+====== Froggies and Doggies of Light ======
+by Robert L. Paddock\\
+Copyright (C) 2022
+<blockquote>
+Let there be light!
+Light is forever more.
+Lights the day.
+Lights the night.
+Guiding Light.
+[1]
+Let there be light.
+Ever more light.
+To darkness removed.
+There is only light.
+Froggies and Doggies
+Enjoy the light
+Whiter than White
+There is always more light!
+[2]
+Forever more you are loved
+in all the light
+by The Light.
+[1: At this point
+Search for Tomorrow
+(TV Soap Opera Series 1951–1986) final seen appears in my Mind's Eye:
+Stu to Joann:  What are you searching for Joe?
+Joann:  Tomorrow
+Guiding Light (TV Soap Opera Series 1952–2009).
+I have no memorable scenes from GL?]
+[2:Channeling Dr. Seuss?]
+</blockquote>
 ====== The Death of Opossum ======
 by Robert L. Paddock\\
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 There are several days in my life that I'd like a “do over” for.
-Do I got back to a few days before Karen's suicide to prevent it?
+Do I got back to a few days before Karen's suicide due to Chronic Pain to prevent it?
 Do I got back 24 years to prevent her car accident in the first place,
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 Do I got back to the post office where I let a lovely looking young
-lady go before me, where there was a very long line at Christmas
+lady go before me, where there was a very long line at Christmas.
-time. She hung around by the door clearly wanting me to talk to her
+She hung around by the door clearly wanting me to talk to her
 and I was too shy at the time, something I've overcome with the
 passing years. I would have never meet Karen at all.
 Do I go back to high school and ask the girl there that I liked, that
-I was to afraid to even talk with due to my shyness?
+I was too afraid too even talk with due to my shyness?
 Do I go back to the first big decision of my life when I was seven,
 and my parents gave me a choice between Karate Lessons or an Organ
-with music lessons. I choose the music lessons, as being a Nerd, I was
+with music lessons. I chose the music lessons, as being a Nerd, I was
 attracted to all the blinking lights and buttons of the organ.
+I should have chosen Karate.
 If we could pull at the threads of the tapestry of our lives how much
-of it will unravel?
+of it will unravel? Do we want it too?
-Do we want it to?
-We only regret those things that we do not do.
-Today by chance or fate, we can not know which, I chatted with a
-lovely young lady as we left a meeting about our shared interests in
-SiFi.
-I asked her to join me for lunch.
-What if she says 'No'?
-Perhaps she'll say yes?  Then new friends we may each have.
-Her answers maters not, for asking the question means there is a new
+I chatted with a lovely young lady as we left a meeting about our shared interests.
-regret I shall not have, fore we only regret that which we do not
+I asked her to join me for lunch.  A new regret I shall not have.  We only regret those things that we do not do...
-do...
 </blockquote>