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I Have Heard

I have heard that “Ignorance is bliss!”--then why so many unhappy people? Heard that “love is blind!”-- but have seen few service dogs at weddings: And which came first? I think the adage and not the people...for surely no conscious writer would imagine such-- and no fine poet would retrieve one from the other side of a feather strewn road. So, what have I heard? Mostly from the herd….

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Date: 1/11/2019 10:08:00 PM
I think you have put, very succinctly, what I tried to say in my poem: ‘Everyone knows’. Neatly expressed, Joe; though the lack of comments suggests that not many deviate from ‘the herd’.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 1/14/2019 6:48:00 AM
I know, Geoffrey; and so few of us realize how great for independent we are! Have beautiful day!

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