The River Side And The Other Side

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He was a man

of many opinions

Some of which

have not changed

since last Thursday

He was a boy

who could swing a bat

harder than anyone

yet never hit the ball

He was a child

who could spell the word

argumentative

before most children

could spell either 

cat or dog

But his longest arguments

were with himself

He could fall asleep

by the river side

contemplating ways

to get to the other side

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THINKING BY THE RIVER SIDE

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Part of this poem was first written

thirty years ago

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