Sunday, March 23, 2014

Aardvark Comments

Rating: 3.5

You can call me dirt pig
For I am a friend of the earth
I have grown to live its purring hum
I feel at ease in its company
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James Merchant
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Frank Avon 16 September 2014

Well, it is weird, but I like it anyway. Actually, I even find it cheerful and encouraging: I have grown to live its purring hum I feel at ease in its company I've always found aardvarks fascinating. Way back, when I once taught eighth graders, one class entitled their class magazine Adventures of a Purple Aardvark (purple because it was printed on an old Ditto machine. (You're probably too young even to know what this is.) Their writing - and their aardvark - touched my heart. Yours does, too. After all these years....

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