Hope Is a Vicious, Flightless Bird With Feathers

Mike Essig
Other Voices
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1 min readMar 26, 2017
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At first, the day felt hopeless,
but then he remembered cassowaries.
When he did, he thought:
I sure hope I never meet one.
Hope returned instantaneously.
It takes so very little to get by.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.