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Allegories of Melancholy
a bird diary

Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone?

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away the DDT now

Give me spots on my apples

But leave me the birds and the bees, please

                         —Joni Mitchell

© Maureen Ruddy Burkhart 2025

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