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8/13/2019 Last Flower Mar

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James Thurber


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You all know about the 12th World War.

Which destroyed the whole human civilisation

and all culture.


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Cities and villages disappearedfrom the face of the earth.

Plantations and forests were wiped out.


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All parks and gardens were burned.

All artistic artifacts were destroyed.


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Men, women and children became

worse than animals.

Because of lack of food and love

even the lowly dogs left their masters.


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In the beginning people were terrified

even at the sight of rabbits.

Books, pictures and songs were banned.

People who were doing nothing were thought

to be wasting their time


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Decades and centuries passed by.

Those generals who escaped death in the last war

even forgot who won and who lost.


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Boys and girls were no more attracted to each other.

Love disappeared from the face of earth.

One day a girl saw the last surviving flower.

She had seen a flower for the first time.


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She told the others that the last flowerwas also about to die.

But no one paid any attention to her.

Only one youth paid heed to her.


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A bee and a bird were attracted to the

scent of the flower.

The boy and the girl tended the last flower.

Soon the flower blossomed.


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Forests and gardens reappeared.

Look! Two flowers! Four flowers! Lots of flowers!


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Touch made the boy and the girl experience

great pleasure.

The girl became interested in

decking and dressing herself.


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Their children were healthy and strong.

They learnt to laugh and run.

Love was reborn in the world.


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Some youth discovered thatthey could keep a brick on brick and build a house.

Dogs returned.


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These houses turned into villages and cities.

Soon everyone started building houses.


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Musicians and Magicians

Music was born again.


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Artists and Poets

Tailors and Cobblers


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Soldiers


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Blacksmiths and Carpenters


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Lieutenants and Captains


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Generals and Major Generals


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For the sake of livelihood a few left in one direction

and a few others in the opposite direction.

And Religious Leaders again became prominent.


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Those who went to the hills felt

they should have gone to the plains.

Very soon those who went to the plains

started feeling they should have gone to the hills.


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In the name of god, religious leaders

stoked the fires of discontent


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Once again the world plunged into war.


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This time the destruction was almost total.


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One woman

One man


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And only one flower remained.

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