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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
- Subject: Fatherlove (c&c welcome)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.151449.18719@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: University of Chicago
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:14:49 GMT
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- Fatherlove
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- "You're driving your mother to depression!"
- "You have no idea what my life is like!"
- "You never ask for our advice!"
- "You always hammer it at me anyway!"
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- another spate of angry words dies
- to sullen silence; the wedge between us
- driven deeper
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- once we shared an easy communion,
- both fascinated by a six-year old's
- question of why the sky was blue
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- but now I don't always look to you for answers
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- I have failed you You have failed me
- straying off that not trusting in my
- carefully prepared newfound judgement
- path to success, too risky that I
- wealth, happiness might be right
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- no way past the conviction that each of us knows the answers
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- *****
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- M.A. Mohanraj
- Connecticut
- December 29, 1992
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- --
- 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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