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Pastimes : Another Good Reason Not To Be Married -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3005)11/12/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: flickerful  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6545
 
Habitation

Margaret Atwood

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn

the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even this far

we are learning to make fire