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Article: In Medias Res.(Poem)

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September 22, 1999
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   Some ungainly gloam bird has flapped once and folded 
   its wings as it dropped to a phone wire, caught it-- 
   and rolled under. Fruit bat. A man, 
   with his son in hand, walks into the street 
   underneath it, to lob up pebbles the bat 
   ignores, this in the fast-failing light 
   of a showery day. A night from ...

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