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Inspired by “Toads” by Larkin

Why should I let frog fancy
Run my life?
Can’t I use my mind as a tether
And ignore it away?

I feel content
To sit about
But every now and then—
Wanderlust.

Lots of folks travel,
Nomad around,
A backpack and will
Surviving on guts—alive.

They seem to like it;
Even as paupers
In bare-footed ridiculous
No one actually starves.

But no, I just can’t
Cross the ocean
On mere lily pad dreams
Even if my heart leaps so.