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Reincarnation

I can't hear the surf for seal barks I suspect they are calling all sharks To end all their woes By eating their foes We've not heard the last from Karl Marx! (THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: With the declining birthrate and 4-million pandemic deaths, the odds are one might reincarnate as a cicada with 17-years before your next meal!

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Valsa George

Date: 12/10/2021 8:09:00 PM

I would prefer to get reincarnated as a pet dog in a rich man's house, but never as a cicada.... :) :)

Rico Leffanta
Date: 12/11/2021 10:08:00 AM

Be careful what you wish for! Dogs of wealth owners get kidnapped, fed unhealthy food, and their naptime is spent showing off their owner's wealth . . . . .

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 7/12/2021 1:24:00 PM

I think I'd like to come back as an otter - they're too cute to eat!

Rico Leffanta
Date: 7/13/2021 11:12:00 AM

I have written numerous limericks about Jesus walking on water and stepping on an otter, so be careful what you wish for!

Lindsay Laurie

Date: 7/8/2021 5:25:00 PM

Hello Rico … a good chance to annoy all hell out of humans. I like it - thanks Rico - Lindsay

Rico Leffanta
Date: 7/9/2021 11:10:00 AM

Mahalo, Lindsay! Take care!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 7/8/2021 11:28:00 AM

ha! never thought about being reincarnated as a cicada, rico! only you would think of that! (although i just read an article about someone who makes earrings out of cicada wings - her neigbors drop off boxes of dead cicadas!)

Rico Leffanta
Date: 7/8/2021 12:02:00 PM

I saw a woman on TV who earns her living dipping cicadas in chocolate, but can not imagine any husband daring to give one to his wife . . ..

Jan Allison

Date: 7/8/2021 11:19:00 AM

thanks for the warning I better ensure i enjoy 3 meals a day then lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Rico Leffanta
Date: 7/8/2021 12:00:00 PM

The BEST reason for staying healthy and getting inoculated during a pandemic, but it wouldn't hurt to keep eating those strawberries with cream . . . ..