laaaazy lettuce.
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lotessetoo sleepy for any coherence today. have a poem instead:
PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR
Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you'll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
It's long after midnight
Her key's in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
Till past ten o'clock!
She digs in her garden
With a shovel and a spoon,
She weeds her lazy lettuce
By the light of the moon.
She walks up the walk
Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
And pays you back cream!
Her lawn looks like a meadow,
And if she mows the place
She leaves the clover standing
And the Queen Anne's lace!
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR
Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you'll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
It's long after midnight
Her key's in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
Till past ten o'clock!
She digs in her garden
With a shovel and a spoon,
She weeds her lazy lettuce
By the light of the moon.
She walks up the walk
Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
And pays you back cream!
Her lawn looks like a meadow,
And if she mows the place
She leaves the clover standing
And the Queen Anne's lace!
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Date: 2010-09-09 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-09 03:03 am (UTC)(I had not read this poem before and I love it. Sometimes I do miss being an English major.)