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A Cabbage Patch

Folk ask if I'm alive,
         Most think I'm not;
Yet gaily I contrive
         To till my plot.
The world its way can go,
         I little heed,
So long as I can grow
         The grub I need.

For though long overdue,
         The years to me,
Have taught a lesson true,
         —Humility.
Such better men than I
         I've seen pass on;
Their pay-off when they die;
         —Oblivion.

And so I mock at fame,
         With books unread;
No monument I claim
         When I am dead;
Contented as I see
         My cottage thatch
That my last goal should be
         —A cabbage patch.

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