The poor avocado trees
Gosh, their leaves

Got so stiff-

That they now Can't let go . . .

Why, they just May hold on-

Twenty years Friends, or so!

Pray it won't

Freeze again-

For an eon, 'least, but . . .

That, 'last, rain It soon shall- Whopping kitt

ies and mutts! J.R. Rolly Moorpark