Baby Monitor

Baby Monitor

A Poem by Pete
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one. - Thoreau

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Idiom: To throw the baby out with the bathwater - Alex Walls ELT

in a fit of restless incognizance
he threw the baby out with the bath water
thank god for the enduring sanity of diapers, rattles and teething rings



© 2021 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light." - Thoreau

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Added on July 8, 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..