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       # 2017-02-07 - Bugs In A Bowl by David Budbill
       
 (IMG) Two fish in a bowl
       
       Han Shan, that great and crazy, wonder-filled
       Chinese poet of a thousand years ago said:
       
       "We're just like bugs in a bowl.
       All day going around
       never leaving their bowl."
       
       I say: That's right!  Every day
       climbing up the steep sides,
       sliding back.  Over and over again.
       Around and around.
       Up and back down.
       
       Sit in the bottom of the bowl,
       head in your hands, cry, moan,
       feel sorry for yourself.
       
       Or.
       
       Look around.
       See your fellow bugs.
       Walk around.  Say,
       "Hey, how you doing?"
       Say, "Nice bowl!"
       
       tags: poem
       
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 (DIR) poem