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To: flickerful who wrote (1576)9/15/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: gypsy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3811
 
Would you believe I had to look it up? Would you believe that I'm lying? Would you believe that I wrote this not susan?

agoraphobia - by susan hahn

It isn't that she doesn't
want to go to the marketplace, if only
to buy one small
compliment. She can remember each
time she went,
got one, took it
home, put it in
a porcelain cup she kept
beside her bed.
She stopped
going out for fear
of wanting too much to fill
the fragile container,
decorated her house in muted
stripes
and moved onto her bed
a color TV

which she watches
steadily.
She likes the news, especially
the accidents that happen
when people travel too far from home.
They secure her place.
And when she faces
a scene filled with a good
time, she wanders --
but only in her mind.

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