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   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   "Marg Petersen"  posted:   
   > "Will Dockery"  wrote in message   
   > news:bdb44a4f.0310130325.43d477c4@posting.google.com...   
   >   
   > > On The Stage.   
   > >   
   > >         I stand on the stage,   
   > >         there are no words.   
   >   
   > And yet, you go on for several lines (and words) yet to say so.  Hmmmmm.   
   >   
   > >         The music surrounds me,   
   > >         I have nothing left to say.   
   > >         All I can speak of,   
   > >         is sailing away,   
   > >         putting it all away.   
   > >         They surround me,   
   > >         they play music.   
   > >         I look into their eyes,   
   > >         do they,   
   > >         do they hold the magic?   
   > >         All I can see is darkness,   
   > >         there are no words.   
   > >         Nothing but this joke,   
   > >         I stand on the stage.   
   > >         These words are nothing,   
   > >         I am nothing.   
   > >         Nothing here, nothing nothing.   
   > >         No thing.   
   > >         The source of laughter,   
   > >         further down.   
   > >         All I can speak of,   
   > >         is this wish to fade away.   
   >   
   > I could say that you *might* (notice that I said MIGHT) have a poem there if   
   > you just cut to the chase.  The last two lines say it all.   
   >   
   > pandora   
      
   Thanks, Pandora, the poetry newsgoup misses you.   
      
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