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I found both of yours interesting, Janet, but this one hit harder for me.... Doug On 21-Dec-06, at 6:28 PM, Janet Jackson wrote: > Don't try so hard > > > voice gone > (the flowing voice you loved) > stripped to grunts, small > sighs, more silence > than sound > > voice changed > (the lilting voice I loved) > sculpted to death, cut > glass, shut faster > than books > > the possessed voice has possessed itself > (I don't know you) > inhabits itself in its own > words, looks for nothing but its own > disconnected > perfection > > rains on itself and drives > itself through the rain > > umbrellas itself to shut > out the rain, cars itself, houses itself, finds > nothing > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> > Poems at Proximity: > http://www.proximity.webhop.net > > You cannot love alone > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 O deceptive mouth covering up for the heart like that. Jenny Bornholdt