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Huan Yi
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0 posted 2005-11-22 11:30 PM



At this time of year
The balls are filled
With cloyed despair

Incompetent debutantes,
Or dowagers, who, with looks unfortunate,
Cast their lines like limbs in various attitudes
Beside imagined woes

Caught between
Wanting to get read and laid
To rest these chickens cluck of death
Love, (sex), desire, (sex),
Their cherry orchard miseries
When what they really need
Is a shot of sin instead of tea

And who in Moscow
Do they think is listening . . .
Save those who having managed school
Prize themselves as intellectuals
Too deep to sweat their brows

Oh the Russian soul is full of woe
Its idiom bereft of joy . . .
That if it had no pain to sigh upon
Would surely seek a sty



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Susan Caldwell
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1 posted 2005-11-23 10:02 AM


I do not respond enough to what you offer to us..and I should.  

I do enjoy your words and thoughts very much.

This piece especially.  

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Huan Yi
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Waukegan
2 posted 2005-11-23 10:20 AM



Thanks Susan
Glad you liked it

John

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3 posted 2005-11-24 12:21 PM


True on both levels, I'm afraid....and the emptying, slurried in the same despair.

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