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Special Thanks to Steve Sims for this contribution.
Know Ye Vermont
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Know ye all men by these
Statements of truth and despair
That I
Having spent one quarter of one century
In the Great Wastes of the Western Deserts
And
Having called said deserts
"The land I live in"
Never "Home"
Never "Home"
And
Having, every day of my residence,
In said Deserts
Witnessed throughout the brown dry horizon
Nature
In all her Horrid incarnations
The law of
"Survival of the Fittest"
Practiced daily
And
Having buried many of my own
My Father of Bullets
In the "Great Las Vegas Desert"
My Mother of cancer
Also in the "Great Las Vegas Desert"
My Beloved Terri
In the "Great Phoenix Desert"
Know ye Great Deserts
that I Renounce thee
"Terrible Deserts"
And
Know ye all men, by these
Statements of Truth and hope
That never have I witnessed the
Glass waters of "Champlain"
Massage Her Shores
Nor the clouds dress
The mountains of her
"Northern Kingdom"
Nor have I heard
The raindrops enrich
The Black Dirt of Her
"Southern Kingdom"
Nor felt the snow
Tickle my Pate and Shoulder in her
"Central Kingdom"
Nor Have I tread across the borders
Into the Biblical land of
"Milk and Syrup"
Know ye Vermont by this
Statement of Finality and Hope
Know ye Vermont I'm
Coming "Home"
Coming "Home"
S.E. Sims
by Steve Sims
Read an entertaining tale about a Vermont chalet called "Little Chalet", a story by Charles Baril from Westminster, Massachusetts or "I am" by CyberErika.
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