Wages of fortune

By Parson Thru
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Trespassing upon a café stool
Stealing early sun of primavera
Breathing sweet contaminants
Familiar voices speaking unfamiliar words
Wages of fortune
How we live within our situation
Or bend the situation to our lives
The unreachable dream
Forty years monotony among maternal streets
The reality of trespassing upon a stool
Stealing someone’s sun
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This captures a life in a
This captures a life in a moment. Lovely stuff, Parson.
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I like your take on spending over long in a café
However I do believe, generally Madrid has plenty of sun to spare.
Reminded me of doing just this in my favourite bar in Haria on Lanzarote (except I was stealing shade)
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How lovely it must be to have
How lovely it must be to have sun - I'd steal a few beams if I could.
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Hello Kevin,
Hello Kevin,
How I envy your use and economy of words. In Shakespeare's Othello there is a line that goes 'Keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them' That one line tells the audience so much.
Moya x
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