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Article: As I Was Saying.(Poem)

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October 1, 2005
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As I Was Saying 
 
   Blotched undercarpet (no carpet) the hue of lead. 
   A pilfered coaster 
   welded to a sill. 
   Sooty cupboards. One dented 
   plastic bear rigid with honey. 
   Nightlong scritch-scratching--an anxious mouse 
   cowering in the crumb pan of his toaster. 
   The back door bore a Zorro-slash of mustard. 
 
   Oh, how sweetly he sang when he ...

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