1436 - Not pushing their weight.

Fewer & fewer.
The chooks enter henopause:
The retirement home.
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1435 - Not bad.

Eat, drink, be merry.
For all the problems we have—
Life is pretty good.
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1434 - No slave to duty.

Not my family.
I'll sit over here and read.
You can talk to them.
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1433 - The Glums

A family lunch.
Time to forget and enjoy.
Determined not to.
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1432 - Woe, woe, a thousand times woe.

Sullen, self imposed.
Wallowing in a pity,
Thickly, as in pitch.
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1431 - Black Clouds.

Why so dull and glum?
You have come to visit us,
You could enjoy it.
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1430 - Socially Distant Lunch

A post-lockdown lunch!
Suitably distanced, of course.
Bowing has returned.
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1429 - Storms

Heavy midnight storms.
Thunder, lightning and rain.
Heavy, heavy, rain.
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1428 - Somewhat magical

It's that day again—
The day I check the account
And money appears.
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1427 - Alone together

It is a strange thing—
Living in isolation;
Alone with others.
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