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Hello everyone.
It's good to be together.
I notice there are no children here.
But we were all children once.


When I look around
I can imagine each of us as a child.
What if we were children again?
What would that feel like?


What would we do
If we weren't being told what to do?
We would play.
Therefore let us play.


I don't mean now necessarily
Because we aren't really children.
We have to be in a safe place
To return to being children.


I mean try it when you get home.
Playing is only fun
If there is no one standing
Outside the game looking on.


Now we are leaving.
Someone is handing you a card at the exit.
It is a permission slip, a pass
To stop working and play.


Thanks for coming.
Don't forget your pass.
Please come again soon.
The door is always open.

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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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