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Date Posted: 08:27:16 02/18/03 Tue
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB07a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.169
Subject: Re: Unknown Date
In reply to: Gray Squirrel 's message, "Unknown Date" on 02:17:26 02/18/03 Tue

I loved this Gray - it really moved me and made me visualise the scene.

R

>Unknown Date
>
>It's just a blue circle
>With a black dot in the corner,
>But perhaps it needs a nightingale
>With a red thread caught in it's talon.
>
>Or a cup of tea unfinished
>On the bedside table
>Of a 98 year old man.
>There's another drop,
>A single tear,
>From "his widow's" chin.
>
>She loves black
>On a feathered hat,
>But not like this.
>In three weeks he
>Would've been 99.
>
>Perhaps it's hailing,
>Maybe frozen tears,
>Corrupted by that
>Same red thread.
>Pink hail.
>
>Tires spinning in the ice
>Like soft banshee,
>She can't stand near the window,
>Aching blue Minis
>Slipping through wrinkles
>Day and night.
>
>God damn that Mondrian,
>He loved her too,
>The wicked paint
>Daring to boil
>From a final glance
>At her silhouette.
>
>- Gray Squirrel

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