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Country Living

Anne Scheerer

Living in the country
With bugs and other critters
Isn’t the way it looks in magazines
Where the gardens never need weeding
The house doesn’t need painting
And the smell of manure is never mentioned.

But the leaves drop from the trees in the fall
And you don’t have to rake them up.
In winter the snow falls and you can watch it
Without worrying about shoveling the sidewalk.
The dog can even poop in the yard
And it doesn’t have to be sealed in a baggie.

And when night falls in the summer
The insects chirp and fireflies glow
The frogs croak and the owls say “Who? Who?”
The grass grows in the summer
But it doesn’t have to be mowed right away
Just so the lawn is even with the neighbors’.

In the country you can have clotheslines
And sheets that smell of fresh air.
You want no floodlights shining in the window at night
Or blinds blocking the sunrise in the morning.
And you welcome the darkness which falls
When the moon and stars are at their brightest.

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