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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Poet who wrote (20459)8/31/2002 5:38:13 PM
From: E  Read Replies (2) of 21057
 
I have a friend who sends poems to me from time to time. (He's a poet, but usually the poems he sends aren't his.) So I find one and send it back. I just sent him this one. I have a book of Stevie Smith on a shelf near the computer, so often it's a Stevie Smith poem. I love her. I'm sending it to you because the poem wasn't available online so I had to type it out into the email, so I want to get double use out of the typing! I posted this same poem long ago on Feelies, I think.

Bereavement

Maria Holt
Was not the dolt
That people thought her.
Her face was full
Her mind not dull
She was my daughter.
She had so much to do so very much
And used to shuffle round upon a crutch,
The younger children always called her mother,
And so she was to sister and to brother
Poor wretch she's dead and now I am bereft
Of 60 pounds each year to fill the place she left
I never paid a cent before; it is too bad,
It's worse to lose a lass than lose a lad.
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