<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;">Hi everyone<br><br>This is a reinder that pieces are duje today. Also my poem is below. <br><br><br><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Line count:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">31 lines </font></font></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><u><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Two geese??</font></span></u></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">While strolling with my dog
named Barney,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I happened to encounter
two lone geese</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">waddling toward a five-acre
lake,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">where their flock had returned
from wintering,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">to lay their eggs and
raise their families.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">This lake, surrounded by
houses,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">is encircled by a two-lane
street.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The ducks rarely
go beyond this road.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Sauntering back from an
undeveloped section,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">beyond their two lane
confinement, </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">peculiar from their usual
behavior,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">and doing so in a nonchalant
form,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">they had abandoned travel by flight,
</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">maintaining their
advancing on webbed feet,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">as though beyond the cares of
their world,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">despite the fact that my
dog was endowed </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">with power to kill, if given a
chance.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">And his house-mate was not far
behind.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Their way of ambling put me in
mind of </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">a twosome
returning from a tryst,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">hand-in-hand, or feathery
wing-on-wing.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">So I will most politely ask
you, </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">what were they doing alone out
there?</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Was that gooney look in their
eyes </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">an unspoken confession of
passion,</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">or were they smoking marijuana</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">that perhaps made them seem so
spaced out ?</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I prefer to think of them as
lovers.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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