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0 posted 2003-02-08 09:05 AM


Office Romance

how am I,
you ask?
to tell, I’d have
to rip your dress,
to pull us down
into each other,
drink your sea,
dive through
your depths,
drown happy
in the waves
of you,
dissolve....

and so I hold
the door, make
conversation, take
the left rail on
the stairs,
you the right,
and never
touch

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1 posted 2003-02-08 10:09 AM


Good morning, Ed--The fantasy and the reality contrasted here makes me wonder what the world would be like if we all lived our fantasy.  Seems like that might have been your intention with this poem.
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2 posted 2003-02-08 10:14 AM


Sometimes control IS a good thing!  
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3 posted 2003-02-08 10:53 AM


One of those things that happens most often, and most happily, by not happening.

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4 posted 2003-02-08 12:20 PM


oh my....that's what it's like, yeah
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5 posted 2003-02-08 12:26 PM


Ratleader
Alas poor Yoric I knew him well, enjoyed.

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6 posted 2003-02-08 12:59 PM


LOL -- ain't we all! This particular one's about a friend's current dilemma RE somebody in my own department, but........

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7 posted 2003-02-08 01:01 PM


haaaaaaaaaaa..made me smile..reminded me of something in my past
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8 posted 2003-02-09 02:38 AM


I've a feeling it happens to everybody sooner or later.
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9 posted 2003-02-09 07:32 AM


Probably one of those universal "Been there - Done that" things...
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10 posted 2003-02-09 10:07 AM


And you've got to expect it. When people have to be together day after day, there -will- be personal dynamics! Work life consists mainly of doing things you wouldn't choose to do otherwise.....and sometimes of NOT doing things you would....

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