I live by necessity,

I compromise my desires

for security.  Ideals

compromised for base comforts.

I play by rules I believe

to be fundamentally

unfair.  I envy the gulls

I lie watching at the coast.

They live by urge - fly here, fly

there - investigate a pile

of seaweed, take off out to

sea to sit and bob for hours.

I envy the fox, living

by in...

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