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Ordinary folk - they think - with normal, orderly lives Work, perhaps, laugh, perhaps, and try to tell no lies. They're 70 percent of the people Who follow all the rules And when a challenge faces them, they echo the 'old school.' "Healing? Bah! Don't need it. We're happiest as clams. Don't come 'round here with your do-good ways disturbing all our sham. That stuff is for those other types - the ne'er-do-wells, the strange. Don't bring that 'round to our neighborhood - we never want to change." They mow their lawns and read the news and putter in their homes They hurt, perhaps, fight, perhaps, but dare not tell a soul. They're 70 percent of the people Who like to make more rules Control is their protection and the mask for fearful fools. Cpoyright July, 2001 - Kathie Bird |