Lemons Make Lemonade\u2014Citrus Clemency
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\n\u201cLet us use it while we may; snatch those joys that haste away.\u201d
\n\u2014Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini writing on Beauty<\/p>\n
How often I would sin and how sour my lemonade
\nThen your sweetness and light like honey would invade
\nThen my transgressions and \u201cmy bad\u201d would fade
\nYour heartfelt homily helps me call a spade a spade
\nAll the wrong roads I took all the wrong paths I trod
\nUltimately led to thorny beds of roses I swear to God
\nAs though the steep stairway to heaven resembled
\nA throng of angels with love and kindness assembled
\nThe orange grove the lemon bushes unripe and sour
\nNow kissed by sunny disposition and the light of love
\nGrow stronger and sweeter by the day and by the hour
\nBlessed by radiant reality from high in heaven above
\nLook homeward my angel shed your love light on me
\nLong dead those kind words said shall now set me free.
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\nTwisting Turns Into Torrid Tango<\/p>\n
\u201cThen come to me in dreams, my love
\nI will not ask a dearer bliss;
\nCome with the starry beams, my love
\nAnd press mine eyelids with thy kiss.\u201d
\n\u2014Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein
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\nPlease go with me to the dance tonight my love
\nwe\u2019ll dance the dirty boogie and do the Twist
\nhear the Platters and Chubby Checker from above
\nend each slow dance with a slow French kiss
\nI\u2019ll make you blueberry pancakes for breakfast
\nwith butter and syrup from the Vermont Maid
\nwe\u2019ll drink some hot cocoa then go take a rest
\nafter we get a\u00a0\u00a0motel and the bill has been paid
\nwe may not be able get any sleep at all tonight
\nwrapped tight in each others arms we will be
\nchanging positions first to the left then right
\nfirst I\u2019ll do this to you, then you do that to me
\ncome with me to the dance so we can unwind
\nwe\u2019ll boogie bump and grind and lose our mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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