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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: 6:56 to O'Hare (c&c welcome)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.052750.4411@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 05:27:50 GMT
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- 6:56 to O'Hare
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- Driving to Hartford in a slow
- relentless drizzle
- Seems singularly appropriate.
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- And the dregs of our last argument
- surround us in the silence
- Leading to the airport.
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- Hauling out my bags and then
- confronting naked grief
- Shatters my control.
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- Crying silent I avoid
- the arms you do not raise,
- And walk into the airport.
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- The ticket counter lady,
- pretending not to notice;
- Blessed kindness.
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- And the thought of friends awaited
- is suddenly cold comfort
- Without you.
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- *****
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- M.A. Mohanraj
- Connecticut
- December 29, 1992
- --
- i thank you God for most this amazing
- day: for the leaping greenly spirits of the trees
- and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
- which is natural which is infinite which is yes - e.e.cummings
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