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Happy New Year

12-30-2010 at 04:05:24 PM

Happy New Year

We shall start a New year
Lifes a fruit, this is but a slice
By janararys end will reappear
Resolutions thrown out vice
We gather with dear friends
toast the start of something new
To goodwill that never ends
and more friends to meet like you

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.