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If You Find Shade

You've got it made if you find shade When it is hot and sunny, For boiling rays can spoil your days In ways that aren't funny. Aside from sweat, you might just get A dose of melanoma Or lethargy, to some degree Resembling a coma. Yet with some luck, you won't be stuck And you can find a bower To keep you cool, or, like a fool, Burn up within the hour.

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Date: 6/16/2024 3:52:00 PM
Yikes! I’m fair skinned, and in my youth, blonde (as in light haired, not dumb…. Oh heck, now I’m in bother) so I’m boiled lobster if I disrespect old sunny face. Enjoyed this, Ilene… it could have been written just for me ;-)
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Date: 6/15/2024 9:17:00 PM
No time for invoking Stokely --- Burn, baby Burn! --- Carmichael... Every summer seems hotter to me, even if it isn't. Getting younger, I guess...
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Date: 6/13/2024 10:43:00 PM
sun can be dangerous, you wrote a precious and true poem Ilene, thanks to you
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Date: 6/13/2024 2:16:00 PM
Oh Ilene, the joys of shade and the dangers of the sun so well described in your delightful rhyme:-) hugs Jan xx
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