Dragons in the Gum Tree Grove

Etiquette

If I should meet you some time to come,
what should I do? What should I say?
Smile and nod, or leave the room?
Pretend we never knew each other?
Or stand till you have run away?
Or am I wasting worry and bother
on something unlikely to occur?
Now we'll walk on different streets,
go to places strangers gather,
and divide the friends we had before.
You take the days, I'll take the nights,
or summer's yours and winter's mine,
or some arrangement that fairly splits
our ways in halves that never join.

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Updated last on:  2001/06/03