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Whatever Floats Your Boat

Whatever Floats Your Boat By: Tom Wright 3-7-2008 Some might think it to be silly To sit and spend time writing But is it so much different Than fishing, driving, or kiting All have proven to shorten my life By the amount of time I’ve spent And toward life’s end I’ll surely Question where all this time went The things that I have written Will endure for all to see But who will know of my big fish That wasn’t meant to be Or the things that perhaps I saw On a Sunday afternoon drive As I age it becomes much harder To keep those memories alive And the kite that I once flew That seemed many layers high I now wonder was it really, Or just low clouds in the sky I guess that what I’m saying, We must each do our own thing If you don’t fish, kite, or sight see Perhaps you’ll write or sing.

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