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While Virginia Woolf walks to Fernham


--The beauty of the world which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
                              --Virginia Woolf 
A Room of One's Own

Before going out for the evening
One must have accomplished something that day.
Not necessarily,  as in the old days, something physical.
A well articulated observation would do. 
Not pretense mind you, but measured conviction.
Or a very good soup.
We have lost that sentiment now (if we ever had it),
Overcome as we are by self-pity and the internet. 
We stay at home now, "keeping our own counsel,"
And nursing our dreams.

                                           
--Larry L. Dill, 2004
 
  
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