<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461059" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Slugs and Snails and Homelovers' Tales</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You asked me for a poem about home and I remembered<br>that millions of years ago there was plenty of food for all<br>in the Garden of Eden and slugs<br>were well supplied with greenery and all was one big happy family<br>until slugs found that other species found them tasty<br>chocolate jellies or unjust desserts especially when after<br>a good night out they were, well, sluggish about getting home<br>and the sun came out and gulp quick as a slug of Jack<br>but spotting one night or was it day, a battered caravan<br>serai, it occurred that a portable home would be a good thing<br>to evolute. Became snails. Just took time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetic point of this is for there is a point, that<br>human beings are much the same, there's the bricks and mortar thing<br>we call home but really home is<br>in the head or heart, we carry it with us, it's the place we go when <br>there's no other place to go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And next time you feel a bit sluggish<br>about going to work, or like a snail unwillingly to school<br>you'll have to admit that Evolution <br>does a goddamned good job, a home in your backpack<br>beats commuting to work any day. Respect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=461059" data-title="Slugs and Snails and Homelovers' Tales de Michael Shepherd" data-description="You asked me for a poem about home and I remembered that millions of years ago there was plenty of food for all in the Garden of Eden and slugs were well supplied with greenery and all was one big happy family until slugs found that other species ..."></div> </div> </div>

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