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- From: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Subject: Re: the Realm's Defender, absent
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152837@IASTATE.EDU>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <7065@news.duke.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:28:37 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <7065@news.duke.edu>, jtrue@acpub.duke.edu (jtrue) writes:
- > To those r.a.p.pers whom it may concern: our Valiant Defender Posthumous O'
- > Toole has informed me that His newsfeed will be down for at least a week
- > (starting yesterday, I believe) and He will be unable to be with us here
- until
- > it is back. Those of you who wish Him to see (and/or lay hands on) any
- > material you post here are instructed to e-mail such material to His
- > Gingerness/Turtleness/Greyness Himself and you will receive His Audience.
- > In the meantime Posthumous sends His poetic regards to us denizens of the
- > Realm in the form of the following poem:
-
- There's something rather sweet about all those capital letters, but if
- jtrue had really wanted donz to get mail, he would have included his
- email address, I think. ;)
-
-
- Marie Coffin
-
-
- Ok, here's a poem.
-
-
- The Telephone Pill
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- It's after midnight and I cannot sleep
- again.
- Somewhere in my brain Anne Sexton's bird
- is keeping me awake
- and I remember
- that every woman you've ever known is still
- from your point of view
- your friend.
- There is no bitterness in you
- and tonight I am especially glad of this.
-
- I hope that years from now
- or maybe months or weeks
- when you and I have outlived this love
- I can still call in the cold hours and say
- Hi... it's me... I couldn't sleep
- and your voice, my first and last seducer,
- will speak its hesitant hellos
- and beckon me to the dark
- curtained room in the back
- where sleep, my elusive friend,
- awaits.
-
-
- Marie Coffin
- May 12, 1992
-