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january
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winter ice gray skies winter ice gray skies snow deeper than patience icicles longer than the hope of an end to it slippery roads begging for accidents fence posts with fractured limbs frozen cars stiff with stubbornness water pipes burst from the tension shoveling scraping brushing shoveling scraping brushing the countryside's stuffed with snow like an ignored laundry basket high heating bills wail firewood's buried in the white grave sun's so depressed it won't come out anymore night dreams of tropical islands day has had a nervous breakdown it's in an asylum waiting for the release of spring arrested by the cold jailed for its warm thoughts |
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Janet Cannon |
