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Mud-Festing Sky Soar

Mud-Festing Sky Soar

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Eagle Photo by Guy Bevan on Unsplash/ Hippo on Canva

The Eagle vs My Hippo

The eagle in me wants to soar

But my hippopotamus side shouts,

“My word, what a bore!”

A Sunday sermon inspires

once again

to rid my heart of the crud

accumulated from my hippo preference

for wallowing in the mud

Of

The gossip

so juicy

The memes

wonderfully mean

More cutting

demeaning

than e…

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