Western Mass livin', Chicago lovin' ...
And after several incarnations... an academic librarian...
Really, just 'watered-down YooHoo'...
"There were the roses, in the rain
Don’t cut them, I pleased.
They won’t last, she said
But they’re so beautiful
where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she
said,
and cut them and gave them to me
in my hand."