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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
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- Subject: Immortalised.....(c&c welcome)
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:56:32 GMT
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- Immortalised at the National Portrait Gallery
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- Scrawny man, dressed in his best brown wool,
- inkstains on his fingertips,
- Looms over a child-king in wine velvet, gold brocade.
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- Kings who built empires -
- poets who toppled them.
- Side by side.
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- Oil and water; a few typed words behind plastic
- define a life for generations.
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- And Ozymandias is not even here.
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- *****
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- M.A. Mohanraj
- England
- December 13, 1992
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- Here, write it, or it will be erased by the wind.
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- - Isabel Allende
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