An appropriate title!
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Frank Parker
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheila Murphy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: snap: exasperanza
> exasperanza
>
> plunked into the quartzsite of our middleage,
> this nullandvoid approx- of *what's new* to each and
> ez-[stet] one of us
> is clumsy, oxish, lowdown, laden,
> post-prim(ate), or
> fully chosen.
>
> THUS it is
> a braindead deadpan pandering apres-midi,
> when quarks are all pacific.
>
> it's a mountain we are feuding
> with and only
> wantonly the forked tongue one cries
> to be young due-to
> is rusted.
>
> we might have talked were it not for your untimely
> constant in-absentia,
> and I'm casual with what
> you causally have infringed upon,
> so all this racket of my voice against the obstacle
> retorting hymn lines as if
> something might break
> through to my capacity for functioning
>
> "you don't say" I repeat
> unto your liking, and you look at me,
> I think, from everywhere but here
> it's that kind of low-grade aftermath
> one used to term, after a fashion,
> an afternoon the kind in which
> one made a day of it.
>
>
> sheila e. murphy
>
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