Kicking The Can

Kicking The Can

A Poem by Pete
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Every child begins the world again. - Thoreau

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Where Does 'Kick the Can Down the Road' Come From? | Merriam-Webster

he used to kick them down the road as a boy
now he picks them up for money
live and learn

why does life have to come with the label, "no deposit, no return"



© 2021 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure." - Thoreau

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Added on June 17, 2021
Last Updated on June 20, 2021

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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..