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What’s the Hurry?

Three-toed sloth from Panama. (Wikipedia photo)
Three-toed sloth from Panama. (Wikipedia photo)

Quite upside down they lounge in trees
in laid back places like Belize
and seldom do they fret or worry
because they’re never in a hurry:
a sloth who chews a leaf today
could still be chewing it next May.

Tom Wobker/The Bard of Sherman Avenue



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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