Closing it with each line, Sharon. Neatly done.
Doug
> On Oct 20, 2016, at 10:39 AM, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> That Distance
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> Someone speaks of the war and I wonder
>
> which war? I see photographs of dead
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> children.
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> That distance between
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> the viewer and the image. The shooter
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> and the target. The bomber
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> and the bomb.
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> The ballot and the battlefield.
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> [image: logo]
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Four or five couplets trying to dance
into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
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