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Miraculous as Air
by Adam Engel
www.dissidentvoice.org
August 6, 2005
But even that car
won't arrive
with no mortician left alive
to loaf behind the wheel
and urge mourners to feel
emotions besides dread,
or at least respect the dead,
if not for sadness or true grief,
perhaps remembrance of belief
that there would be another day
of sun and air and like display
of Spring and Future and the Bloom
of Life, despite the gloom
of children taken, promptly gone;
the knowledge that things won't go on.
Such luxuries as Hope beyond Despair
would be, for us, miraculous as air.
Adam Engel
lives at www.adamengel.com.
He can also be reached at:
bartleby.samsa@verizon.net.
You can order a copy or two of Left Out for a discounted rate at:
www.brickburner.org.
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