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Pastimes : A Poetry Corner

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From: ManyMoose	4/4/2005 5:16:02 PM
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Minerva Jones I am Minerva, the village poetess, Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk, And all the more when "Butch" Weldy Captured me after a brutal hunt. He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers; And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up, Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice. Will some one go to the village newspaper, And gather into a book the verses I wrote?-- I thirsted so for love! I hungered so for life! Edgar Lee Masters from Spoon River Anthology This explains the silence on A Poetry Corner I beg forgiveness for my disrespect of the dead. Masters was prophetic: he capitalized Yahoo.

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