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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Project Happy Days

Mix in a little foolishness.

Let me tell you
what I’m working on here.
I call it,
Project Happy Days.

It costs me no money
and requires little doing.
It does demand some time
as well as the free spending
of those experiences collected
during my vulnerable moments,
and then allowing them
to come spilling out of me,
falling onto this page,
thus freeing my mind and heart
to take in the world anew.

There’s no deadline.
Project Happy Days
just keeps on going and going,
through the good, bad,
and indifferent times.

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