Where You Toss Half A Guinea To A Ninny

Where You Toss Half A Guinea To A Ninny

A Poem by Pete
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When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. - Thoreau

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Barns Batch Spinney - Wikipedia

down by the spinney
where gossip is the skinny
sheer ignominy



© 2025 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and those who edit and read it are old women over their tea." - Thoreau

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Added on October 23, 2025
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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..