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To: flickerful who wrote (1158)	12/20/1998 3:50:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (2) of 13018

THE SWING I Sitting in the swing I watch the house: a fine-boned, scrawny cat rubs against your legs. With a rough hand you stroke and stroke its head... The cat's sharp claws rake the stroking hand. I lean against the swing's wooden brace and smile bitterly. II The sun flashed. I said nothing. Not a word. Just, swinging in the sunlight, I picked at the peeling dark green paint. Chips drifted with leaves to the ground in a narrowing spiral. III We will part. Your hands grow cold, but hurriedly you polish the swing's rusted chain one final time. You do not look at me, you do not say - We will part. Crying, I follow you. I think about the tears, the rust, the chain: what bitter symbols life feeds us... We will part. After a time I dip my fingers in the salty water and break into laughter. I search for shelter: I search for the rough palm of the Christ. everyone is laughing and so are you like a circus girl partially bared and blindfolded smiling at the brilliant pain hidden in the maestro's knives eyes closed happily you tread the sharp blades of love towards scorn and disappointment the dancer has summoned you on stage no longer young not graceful painfully naive you rush clumsily to learn the steps of the immortal dance everyone is laughing and so are you a person whose Achilles' heel is his heart Egle Juodvalke

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