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Thursday, May 2, 2013

James Broughton: "Take the Whole Kit"


Take the whole kit
with the caboodle
Experience life
don't deplore it
Shake hands with time
don't kill it
Open a lookout
Dance on a brink
Run with your wildfire
You are closer to glory
leaping an abyss
than upholstering a rut
  


"Take the Whole Kit" by James Broughton, from Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems. © Insight to Riot Press, 1994.  

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  1. Barb ChamberlainTuesday, May 02, 2023

    Love this! I had to go look up the origins of "kit and caboodle"--such a delightful alliterative phrase--and found these and others: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/kit-and-caboodle.html and http://www.word-detective.com/2011/08/kit-and-caboodle/

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