July 4th Is a Day for Barbeques

Music: Lakes of Pontchartrain. Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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July 4th is a day for barbeques Underneath an unforgiving sun; Later, fireworks, perhaps the news, Yawns, some love, and then the day is done. For most it is a day for celebration Of something so familiar that its grace, Unnoticed as a routine revelation, Remains interred in its accustomed place. This sweet neglect of what sustains a life Has all the confidence of man and wife.