If you have time to chatter

Read books

If you have time to read

Walk into mountain, desert and ocean

If you have time to walk

Sing songs and dance

If you have time to dance

Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot

 ♦

This poem is from How to Live on the Planet Earth © 2013. Reprinted with permission of Blackberry Books.

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