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- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: woman on church steps
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!linus!alliant!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:15:48 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212272316.12@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1hlnvjINNm5o@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1hlnvjINNm5o@agate.berkeley.edu> asun@biocon.Berkeley.EDU writes:
- >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.
- >
- >``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.
- >
- >``for the forgotten ones. for the multitudes.''
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- >her body creaks as she covers herself in turquoise, magenta, and blue.
- >
- >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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- And just when I was wondering where asun went.......
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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