RIVER RAFTING

I would have to be daft

to get in a raft

and shoot down a raging river.

The school of hard knocks

in the rapids and rocks

is no place for this lily liver.

They say it is thrilling,

but there could be spilling,

and I would be willing to bet some

that indubitably,

I would be the spill-ee,

and end up as flotsam or jetsam.

Pat D’Amico is a columnist with Northwest Prime Time, sometimes a Sharing Stories author, sometimes a poet, but, she says, more of a lily liver than a river rafting spill-ee.

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