Hi, I'm new here but I felt that you might enjoy my mother's poem:
A Little Bit of Land
A little bit of land is all I ask.
Just a small place to call my own,
Where I can put down root, so deep, so deep,
That great-grandchildren will…
Dec 20, 2009
Joe Hutton is now a member of Humanities RoundtableDec 20, 2009
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