I LOVE INERTIA BUT GRAVITY BRINGS ME DOWN

I love to sit in the sun,

I love to float in the sea,

I enjoy doing nothing,

I am lazy as a flea.

(I know, I'm thinking what you're thinking,
“Are fleas lazy?”)

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I am like a dog or cat,

I can snooze at noon,

I can sleep until there's another full moon.

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I don't like to fall down, but I've had many bad falls.

I mean the falling flat on my face kind.

Before getting old I was able to get up from such falls without too much pain or injury.

Now I take every footstep like it will be my last.

I do not want to fall down again.

My last two produced a fractured spine and a fractured humerus.

The injuries came five years apart.

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I shiver and cringe when I see people on those gravity-defying, head-decapitating amusement park rides.

I prefer solid earth, pristine air, and silence.

Rivers and oceans.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND NOT FALLING DOWN