<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><b>“If You Knew . . . “</b> by Nikki Costello</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Welcome, welcome, </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">step right up.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll give you confidence, </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll bring you luck!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll be your friend, </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">A companion for life.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll never desert you</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Through your times of strife.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Once you have chosen me</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll never look back.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Soon you'll be hooked </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And then I'll really attack!</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll strip all your dignity,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Morals and pride.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll claim your soul;</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll feel dead inside. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'm clever, I'm cunning,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'm patient, I'm quick.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Once I've got a grip on you,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll soon become sick.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll take your money,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll beg, steal and lend.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll belong to me now,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And this nightmare won't end.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">By the time that you realize</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'm not what I claim,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You'll be in the depths of despair </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">And this beast won't be tamed. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The feelings of self-loathing </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Will become too much to bear,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">But you chose to befriend me.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Yes, you put me there. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll take you places </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You didn't know to be real. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'll drag you down lower</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Than you thought possible to feel.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">If you knew this from the beginning, </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Would you have stepped onto my ride?</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Roll up, roll up,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">You must quickly decide</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I promised we'd be friends,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Said I'd be loyal and true,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">But you didn't even ask my name.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">.....I'm ADDICTION, that's who.</div></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>---------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>