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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Drought\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n The sun is going down across this blistered land.<\/p>\n Little is left alive except a few trees, lizards, & man.<\/p>\n A lone guitar is heard in the fading light.<\/p>\n Man won\u2019t give up the land without a fight.<\/p>\n Summer is over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The city swelters in the welcomed dusk.<\/p>\n Florescent lights shine through the dust.<\/p>\n A soldier in a bar dreams of a love affair.<\/p>\n While children & mothers swat bugs in the air.<\/p>\n Summer is over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a never ending show.<\/p>\n Traffic moves by very slow.<\/p>\n Afraid to stir the dusty air.<\/p>\n Flowers lie dead everywhere.<\/p>\n In this cursed, drought dried land<\/p>\n stands a sunburned, lonely man.<\/p>\n His heart is aching for the one he lost.<\/p>\n This is what the drought has cost.<\/p>\n Everything dies from lack of water.<\/p>\n Thanks to man & his foolish fodder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A small ray of hope burns in the air around all.<\/p>\n Summer is over. —-Will this end it all?<\/p>\n A few more weeks till cooling autumn comes.<\/p>\n Then, maybe, blessed rain for everyone.<\/p>\n Summer is over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This cannot go on like this for another year.<\/p>\n Man will die without rain. There will be no beer.<\/p>\n There will be no crops to keep man alive.<\/p>\n Animals will die. Bees will mummify in their hive.<\/p>\n Summer is over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a never ending show.<\/p>\n Traffic moves by very slow.<\/p>\n Afraid to stir the dusty air.<\/p>\n Flowers lie dead everywhere.<\/p>\n In this cursed, drought dried land<\/p>\n stands a sunburned, lonely man.<\/p>\n His heart is aching for the one he lost.<\/p>\n This is what the drought has cost.<\/p>\n Everything dies from lack of water.<\/p>\n Thanks to man & his foolish fodder.———-R. W. Johnson—–(2014)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Drought\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The sun is going down across this blistered land. Little is left alive except a few trees, lizards, & man. A lone guitar is heard in the fading light. Man won\u2019t give up the land without a fight. Summer is over. The city swelters in the welcomed dusk. Florescent lights shine … Continue reading The Drought<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-romance","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}