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Breakfast


A Bear who is stirring a porridge

Of oats that another Bear’s sown

May do it secure in the knowledge

Another will soon stir his own:

 

For Goldilocks’ type isn’t picky,

Unwilling to use a strange spoon,

Nor wonders while getting it sticky

Who else may have just, or might soon;

 

sufficient to each is the sweetness,

untrammelled by shouldn’ts and shoulds,

while breakfast retains its completeness,

and nobody fences the woods.