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Critical Analysis #2
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gourdmad
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since 2003-12-01
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Upper Ohio Valley
0 posted 2003-12-01 11:30 PM


For Sale
Was the heading of the ad
Placed in the free unclassifieds
Of the local distributed free paper

On convenience store’s counters
Left in plastic tubes on rural routes
Read by housewives bored by routine
And good old boys looking for used trucks

“For Sale
Bridal Gown, unaltered and unused”
Perhaps it could have read
Unaltered and unaltared

An unforgiven infidelity?
A bride-to-be killed in a car by a drunk?
An activated reservist who bled out in Iraq?
The unanswered Why opens gates of poignancy

For Sale
Life goes on
Mouths must be fed
Rents paid, medicines bought

In cold dawns after sorrow
Reality reasserts for someone
Who can’t afford to pack it away
And pull it from a trunk in a grey future
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