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From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: 'In Which We Serve'
Now that's a fine first line
Last night all the leaves fell here
with an audible thump.
I knew a poem was near
by the sinister bump
it made in my withered, sere,
and dispiriting clump
of drafts. Overcome by fear,
I was forced to rhyme with "dump."
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