If this is a riddle, Doug, I'm guessing TV? Should line one be 'how to
speak to'? and 13 'as empty'?
Bill
On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 at 7:13 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> how speak to
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> the absence
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> that never listens
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> cannot hear
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> a word they say
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> it hovers head height
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> & swallows all sound
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> & light
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> a mess a beam
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> me up scotches
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> only the negative
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> space for rent
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> for rants aa empty
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> as every word
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> repeated
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> ad nauseam
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> Douglas Barbour
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> He saw the dark as a ragged garment
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> spread out to air.
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> Through its rents and moth-holes
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> the silver light came pouring.
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