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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!biocon!asun
- From: asun@biocon (a sun)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: woman on church steps
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 02:15:15 GMT
- Organization: Celestial Manifestations DisInc.
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- cold plastic comforts her arms.
- a crinolated shawl restrains her hair.
- eyes dim, she watches a crack wind itself sinuously across the
- pavement. it disappears into whiteness.
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- ``i am the candidate. i am the chosen few.''
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- she holds a gardenia, unpotted and bare.
- carefully, she wraps its naked form in bright red linens.
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- ``for the forgotten ones. for the multitudes.''
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- her body creaks as she covers herself in turquoise, magenta, and blue.
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- kneeling, she picks up a coin from the ground, tosses it in the air,
- and walks across the crystalline snow. her feet tread lightly upon the
- earth.
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-
- -a
- (eyes calm)
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