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Rip Tide

Rip tide A current That takes you out beyond your control The only way to save yourself is to just swim sideways along the shore Somehow we are all caught in a wild riptide Swimming stupidly perpendicular to the shore I am desperately trying to find gravity Trying to find sanity but sure seems so far away I'm swimming hard and fast the tide is running out I feel whisked out into deep waters where there are only sharks and wild things I keep swimming horizontally to the shore trying to be neutral but the pull out is so hard I have buoyancy but Out to sea So far out there... are we Is our ship lost Will we never see beautiful common land again I wonder if that's what it was like for the sailors Commoners all Just trying to find a new land Caught up into a riptide of insanity taken out so far out to sea are we He doesn't care about you and yet you care about him Stupidity seems to be the rule of the day Blind blind blind are we Blind to the confusion he has intentionally made Blinded by want So blind ...will follow a shark into the dark deep waters and be eaten and forsaken and killed off one by one and even say thank you as he steals your very life away one virus at a time

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Date: 8/24/2022 11:08:00 AM
You have a winner (but when caught in a riptide, try floating instead of swimming as swimming is exhausting whilst floating conserves energy for when an opportunity arises). Aloha!
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Ingrid Showalter Swift
Date: 8/24/2022 11:41:00 AM
Rico THANK YOU for the spell check save :) and the kind words and suggestion to float Indeed in these crazy times Floating in meditative bliss is probably the best course - all around

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