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The Annual January Thaw (Free verse) by Dovina

Arousing hope, tempting young hikers to let down their guard so he can kill them, natural selection sends the unwary out in tennis shoes to lose their senses in watery snow. Thus he reduces the optimist population, promoting survival of embittered stoics who believe he is against them.

Shuushin 27-Jul-04/1:12 PM
I must be one of those embittered stoics.

I remember hiking, not in January (May I think), when there was no snow at the bottom of the mountain so I wore hi-tops on a whim - mistake since I was soon tramping through snow...

crappy snow. Good poem.




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