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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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0:00.0 | A poem by Garrison Keeler from Brisk Verse, May Snow. |
0:06.4 | In Minnesota, we don't count on spring in April. |
0:09.8 | We have a climate of diversity. |
0:12.7 | It's possible that a May morning's paper will say, |
0:16.4 | Snow expected tomorrow or Thursday. |
0:19.7 | We do not complain, we simply say, welcome to Minnesota and |
0:24.4 | March 4th. Snow in May, but we are pretty much okay. And pretty much okay is good enough here in the |
0:32.3 | north. If it snows in May, we do not fuss about our misery, whimper, make a stink or whinge or cry. |
0:41.2 | For everyone else is in the same boat as we, and soon the sun will shine, if not in June, July. |
0:48.7 | And when the crocuses come up, the tulips and the purple gentian, we feel joy, though it's nothing we'd ever mention. |
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