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Food for thought...
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All we are is food for...
In youth we ask the questions We ask and wait with healthful Body and mind and spirit In later life we still ask the questions With stiff joints and fuzzy thinking But with a more mature spirit Soaring towards that day When we are disintegrating Piles of food for starving animals And we don't care to ask any more --inspired by hearing about a man who left his body to wild animals, wanting to show his love for them by giving his dead body to them...�

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Reviewed by Regis Auffray

Reviewed on April 17, 2005

Wow. This made me think, Lynn. Thank you. Love and peace to you. Regis

Reviewed by OnepoetGem *the Poetic Rapper

Reviewed on April 17, 2005

Wow, this is super touching and great to me Lynn. I've been thinking about cremation myself. I have a little Indian in me. the idea of burial doesn't move me that much. G

Reviewed by Lynn Barry

Reviewed on April 17, 2005

Robert,
I think they may have chewed on the man's best intentions for a while...

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on April 17, 2005

good poem ..

do you think the wild animals understood this gesture of "love?"

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)

Reviewed on April 16, 2005

A bit gross is all I can relate to this inspiration. His body, his wish. Still gross. You wrote a good poem, nevertheless.

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