j...
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               came late read last
               said:

               i lost the poem i
               wrote for tonight
               was laughing we
               were laughing

               how pretty and sad and blonde she was
               haven't seen prettier
               haven't seen sadder
               how laughing she was how
               one poem she
               said:

               this is called n...
               ...burries head in breast in hair

               lover?  sister?  another
               girl like her?
               yeah another.
               mother.  come back n...
               ...let us live like we did
               before.  the divorce.

               took the lectern
               looked around
               said:

               my name is j...

               didn't say her last name
               smiled.  didn't say.
               how pretty she was how
               sad she was how
               she said she lost the poem then
               read about n...

               haven't seen prettier.
               (so i looked away)
               haven't seen sadder.
               (so i wrote about her)

               we were laughing
               from the other
               from the other poems
               and she was laughing
               how sad she


                       Marek Lugowski
                       22 July 1998
                       Chicago, Illinois

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