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Carol Hoon's avatar

I'm so sorry I can't make it today. I have to get some plants in the ground. Peas, bok choy, etc. Here's my poem for our times:

I just want to be free

Free to think my thoughts

Free to sing my songs

Free to walk my dogs

Pleeeeease let me be, just let me be

You stood in line

You took the shot

You believed the prop

but, please don't push me down because I stood my ground

don't banish me, when all I wanted was to be free

Pleeeease just let me be

I just wanna go home to be left alone

To sing my songs, I did nothing wrong

All I wanted was to be free, pleeeease just let me be

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Caroline Ayers's avatar

One of my favourite poems, "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver, often read at funerals,

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?

I did.

And what did you want?

To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

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