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Article: Valentine's day. (poem)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
- Author:
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All right, maybe nothing's as bad as it seems, maybe death itself
is a bright seed rolling in the dark ocean of the earth.
But the newspapers are full of jealous .45s, jilted shotguns -
A newlywed in Tyrone, Pennsylvania is killed by a crossbow for laughing over coffee
with another man. In Montana a telephone crushes a skull ...