July 4th Is a Day for Barbeques

Music: Duettino for Two Bassoons.
By Eugene Bozza.
Performed by Grossman, Ewell, Grainger at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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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 neglect of what sustains one's life
Has its twin in the love of man and wife.

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