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A Bend In the River

The serpentine and ageless liquid mercurial possessed snake eternally swallowed since the beginning of time one unquenchable thirst to gorge and slake slurping up an icy cold mountainous pebbly shake yet fresh as an irish spring using thy tongue o gaelic spake then tumbling down into the cavernous abyss subsequently carving a deep criss cross patchwork across the rock hard rugged topography like the handiwork of some invincible force commandeering a humungous rake affixing legendary signature quasi-indelible grooves only for the near indomitable chiseled masterpiece to be erased, twisted then wrenched by that natural landscape altering phenomena identified as an earth quake creating a fresh tabula rasa to begin anew inviting waters from on high to carve from the ebbing and flowing millennial currents which eventually find a more direct course beginning as trickling creek swells from winter rains and thence in summer while the sun doth bake when flora blooms and fauna prance the firmament then abandons bent elbow oxbow lake as a former bend in the river. frum - thhis hen pecked bantam which spouse will never hush and let me concentrate at some endeavor but please DO NOT consider me a lush nor believe this mainline/ lower merion resident lives plush for his values quite out of sync with majority in a rush to chase the ole might buck if quiet, you can hear the whoosh!

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