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=__Happiness__=

In casual simplicity --


//Emily Dickinson// **

= = //**"Blackberry Eating"** I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost [|unbidden] to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched,many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, [|squinch] open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry -- eating in late September.

Galway Kinnell//

// **"[|The Preservation of Flowers]"** Between the cab firm and the chicken shop the pavement cracked and a flower stall sprang up, the city's special offer to passer by. It stocks every colour flower except grey twenty-four seven blossom, odds on bees, and a sign which says You Can Smell The Flowers for Free. It checks the street, Those who used to hurry are slowed, and sold on bouquets of gorgeous and sorry. They pick the florist too. He's a bunch of [|bluebell] eyes and blooming sales pitch, daisy grin brushed across his shirt. Certain customers, he slips an extra rose in a dozen; to certain costumers he says '[|Angel] -if want them to last a little bit longer try adding a teaspoon of sugar to the water.' //-Julia Bird

//[|Preservation of Flowers Video]// The link above leads to a video of a single flower surrounded by dead grass. Even though most of the scene is bare the flower stands tall and makes it beautiful, just like the dull city being brightened up by a single flower stall.

This picture shows that flowers create joy in everyone, even small children.

__**Conclusion**__