
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">AUTOBIOGRAPHY</span><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>Author unknown<br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">For those who weren't born, it's all the same.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">They perch upon some tree in Space and smile.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Myself, I never thought of it, I came,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A nine-months child.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I spent the best part of my life in school,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cramming my brain till I forgot each word.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I grew into a highly polished, model fool.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">How did it happen? I really never heard.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The war came next (it cut off our vacation).</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I trotted with the field artillery now.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We bled the world to ease its circulation.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I kept on living. Please don't ask me how.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Inflation then, and Leipzig, and a whirl</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of Kant and Gothic and Bureaucracy,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of art and politics and pretty girls,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And Sundays it was raining steadily.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">At present I am roughly 31</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And run a little poem factory.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alas, the greying of my hair's begun.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My friends are growing fat remorselessly.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I plop between two chairs, if that's appealing,</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Or else I saw the bough on which we sit.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I wander down the garden-walks of feeling</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">(When feelings die) and plant them with my wit.</span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I drag my bags around despite the pain.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The bags expand. My shoulders grow unsure.</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In retrospect, permit me to explain:</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">That I was born. And came. And still endure.</span></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><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" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></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>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></body></html>