For a New Year

-- Don Marquis
(Pity the Poor Spiders)

i will admit that some
of the insects do not lead
noble lives but is every
man s hand to be against them
yours for less justice
and more charity

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Yours for less strife,
but indeed a more blithe ...

Yours for a less frantic,
but more so corybantic ...

New Year.

Yours for good fermentables,
Thomas Cizauskas

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