Without Starbucks by Christopher A. Lane
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how does this sound:
we sell everything - house, cars, furniture, the stuff that
fills up our lives and we
take the money, use
it to go
overseas - Mozambique or Ethiopia or
South Africa or we could
snake down the continent to El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela
Brazil...  to swing a hammer and
help build shelters for
the landless, homeless, hopeless
dig irrigation ditches in the dust
bowls, teach AIDS awareness

or dole out porridge to little kids with basketball
bellies, something
to that effect
(any effect)

 no...  you're right, it
sounds squirrel crazy
what was I thinking
we would never survive with-
out Starbucks
for now
they understand

 



 

Contact Christopher A. Lane at: ShamblinGait@aol.com