How fortunate am I!
As I traversed to and fro
My sagacious hound Milly alongside me
At my beck and call
Transversing along the sunny Rockaway Beach shoreline
My! Oh! My!
What did I find!
Bounding above the waves
A school of jet black dolphins!
Merrily bobbing their dorsal fins up and down!
By the bye!
I can attest from yonder beach sands
None wore frowns!
After a brief repose
My staunch steadfast pooch
Savoring the coolest shadows
On the steps of a quaint neighborhood church
I felt a lurch?
A hunch!
Nay! A fervent need!
To read!
A sumptuous tome
The Intellectualist’s Gourmet
As I approached the library
To mine self be true
I softly intimately queried
Will their be a rich set of printed works
Make its presence known
To literally make my day?
Or a bunch of mis-mash
Literary scaliwags!
From the lower end theory
Well whattaya know!
It should have come adorned with a big red bow!
A fascinatingly new book on science and Edgar Allan Poe!
Despite the most terrible Long Covid headaches!
The syndromes rabid inner aspiration to aversion to the slightest of sound
Light and heat sensitivity!
Nervous systemic chronic problems and all!
I gently hath realized in full
Twas this the day my fortunes are turning!
Smiling widely!
Convinced of the fruits
Bared wholly on my epic journey
I walked out into the fresh air
My thoughts at once
Becoming supernaturally clear
I entered wistfully on my new healing path
Savoring the blue skies and green grass!
And closed the frightening past
With its torturous and painful path
With the subtle closing
Assisted via gravity!
Of the library door
I hath entered the palliative path
That will lead me to subsequent holistic and profound sunny shores
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