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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