See your point, Doug. Thanks,
Bill
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 3:13 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> Bill, for teh most part, this moves directly to those final fine lines. I
> think it can, as you now think, be many kinds of loss/departure. It seems
> to me it’s really about that happening, & the other gone, so I’d maybe
> delete these two lines:
> Your head will not seem ample
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> to carry their legacy
>
> Doug
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> > On Nov 27, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Someone you care about
> >
> > will leave the table
> >
> > and not come back
> >
> >
> > will become
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> > an absence
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> > riding in a different
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> > compartment
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> > Your head will not seem ample
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> > to carry their legacy
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> > All that proximity
> >
> > once so available
> >
> > now so fled
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> >
> > The de-parted
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> > no longer attached
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> > don’t so much shift
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> > to some other plateau
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> >
> > as dog our steps,
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> > blunder into our dreams
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> >
> > You never know
> >
> > as you turn a corner
> >
> > of thought
> >
> >
> > when they might approach
> >
> >
> > bw
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