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From: "grasshopper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: New Sub: After
> After
>
> He thought about it for years
> but there was always
> some reason for delay:
> after Christmas, after his birthday,
> after he'd dumped his current. [neat bit of idiom]
> Then it was after the wedding,
> after the christening,
> after nursery school,
> always after.
>
> After the doctor
> had given him the news,
> he thought of things [not sure about this line]
> growing over years. [but I like this link]
> After he'd made the connection,
> he picked up the phone
> but then it was too late. [?By then]
>
> He added a bunch of flowers
> to the supermarket trolley
> and on the way home,
> he parked by the cemetery
> and left the chrysanthemums,
> ferns and gypsophila
> on a stranger's grave. [superb end]
>
> grasshopper
>
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