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need me … for I feel … good … truly down-to-the-core good I always do and that’s why you want me I know you want me you can feel me stirring … deep ever since THEN when you watched it - there was an old man, sprite strolling the city, wide he walked past a young homeless girl who had bare feet (on a cold day) seemingly unaware of her until … he turned around went back spoke to her a moment then gave her his tennis shoes (not the bargain kind) took the shoes right off his own feet and put them down to hers … nothing more was said it didn’t need to be she couldn’t thank him for sake of the tears she was holding back but that was enough for him and YOU - you saw it all … it made you warm it made you … crave for more it made you want ME almost as much as you’ve ever wanted anything in your life and though this startled you a bit, the need for me grew and grew … and is still growing that’s a good thing … a very good thing cuz I feel good I ALWAYS feel so very, very good and I wanted you to want me now … you’ll strive for me I’ll be the new drug in your veins the new high in your life the new cat in your pajamas, dazzle in your eye, and swizzle stick in your drink the desire for me will grow so intense that you’ll do something - something for someone else that makes you feel that warm that high-ness that GOOD … and someone like you will watch and wonder why they feel so aglow … and they … will want me, too for I am contagious infectious and completely impartible and my name is … kindness. Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, May 28, 2024