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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

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of Depression

0 posted 2002-02-12 12:13 PM

T’was a cold and windy night in winter,
All dishes had been washed from my dinner,
And I was about to turn out the light
To retire to my sordid dreaming time
When there came a soft knocking in the night.

For the delay my dreams I did not mind,
Because they had no rest for me to find,
So I went to see who was at my door,
Coming in the cold dark of the winter,
To find one whom I had known from before.

The wind swirled round them as they did enter,
An old neighbor and a young child with her,
I queried on why she traveled this eve,
So late to be coming to my back door,
Eviction she said had forced her to leave

They had stayed somewhere else the week before,
But t’was too rough she could stay there no more,
They sold her things and was with drugs gone wild,
With no where else to the streets she did flee,
Leaving all things except for her girl child.

A day of walking and she came to me,
Hoping only for a warm place to be,
Remembered this as a place of a friend
Of time long gone and another place too,
Begged for refuge only one night to spend.

I fed her and the child with tonight’s stew,
Taking them in seemed the thing I should do,
For humanity and friendship of old,
How could I in a Winter’s night send her,
To face reality hungry and cold.

End Part 1
This is a fictional story,
I never make stew on a Monday Night

Gloom

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