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- From: hamlet@ravel.udel.edu (Chris Adams)
- Subject: more bears
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- Organization: University of Delaware
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:36:46 GMT
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- Jesus wept but I pierced my eardrum
- with a knitting needle when I was
- four, and bled the sweet muse of
- collision from within.
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- the electricity wasn't enough for
- well-grounded me, though now with
- well-ground eye-glasses I marvel to
- see people paying for the pleasure
- of my past pain.
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- and it is that which motivates gift,
- garlic oil and razor blade, as I
- relive that and pre-live tomorrow's
- wedding with as yet unbridaled Emily
- and her well-groomed banker paying
- the holy cost only to turn hollow
- and caustic ten years hence.
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- I see their ongoing lives as aptly
- as I see the handkerchief on which I
- type, or the soldering pin which
- sealed up my mind five presidents ago.
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- in those days, I needed a pierced
- eardrum like I needed a hole in the
- head, but now it is a whole I need
- and it just keeps flowing away.
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