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			Another one from poetry class...just in case you're wondering, the instructor didn't believe in rhyme, or abstraction in poetry...
 
 Winter Storm
 
 With old, arthritic fingers
 the half-naked tree
 clutches the dirt-brown
 wrinkled leaves,
 like remnants of tattered clothing
 fluttering in the frigid wind,
 as if to shield itself from
 the cutting crystal tears
 wept by the shivering sky.
 A half-cradled bird's nest,
 abandoned,
 is perched in the crook of Tree's arm,
 rocked precariously with each rough breath.
 The empty feeder flings back and forth,
 like a swing out of control;
 The Wind nibbles and chews...
 Tree is losing.
 
 28 Oct. 1992
 Sidhe
 
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				My free will...I never leave home without it. 
--House
     
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.  
-Rita Rudner
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