quaint

and though all the world is falling round their head

they do what they can with what they have &

they make the most of it

huddled inside a small town in the middle of nowhere

in a town forgotten by the state & a

state that runs a mostly forgotten country in the middle of

a planet on its way to extinction---

but the fireplace is warm &

the water, still clean,

amazes the most of them,

as it functions to hydrate &

wash them of the everyday toils

where labor is what matters &

popularity or celebrity

hardly becomes a notion,

where the children do their best to learn &

the parents do their best to stay

together,

even though they are not the type that would need a

reason,

for they spent enough time in the beginning,

picking each other out &

investigating the pros & cons of the situation

where,

inevitably, they considered their options &

found that they had been lucky to stumble upon

one another, when they did---

this is said to last, until the children grow up &

though one may want to fly from the nest to a greater populated area,

somewhere in the known world,

the others may very well stay

to continue the simple living

to continue the struggle

to just plain live.