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    HYMN FOR 21 SOULS

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    CLICK HERE: https://carvalko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Hymnto21souls3-1.mp3 After Shots Rang Out I will never live those long afternoons, The summer vacation we might have shared before you slipped away, I will never watch you walk into the future, spot you, capped and gowned, Among a thicket of fresh faces, chattering masses, last things left unsaid, I will never hear wise words from a speaker, the row by row procession, handshakes, your graduation, I will only see the long shadow of our separation...

    WINDOWLESS

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    IMPEACHMENTS bring back memories that I'd long shelved for good reason. Oh, not the reason you may think, i.e., living vicariously through the excising of an affront to our collective sense of how public officials should behave. Although, there is a vicarious part, because, during the Nixon hearing  the summer of 1974, I was taking my first constitutional law class and obsessed with the hearings--, to the degree that I set my cassette tape recorder in front of the radio each morning, making sure I didn't miss a verbal moment. As fate would have it, eight years later, I became friends and partn..

    SINCE I FELL FOR YOU BY JOE

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    Was it her chestnut hair or the moon’s rays that leapt off in highlights after downpours in life’s gray rain? Was it the glitter drawn from youth’s eyes, or the ocean of tears shed for the days spent shackled—the suffering they once and again had witnessed? No, it was her lips, vermilion, strong-willed, sensual, and how they moved over the countless poems she murmured to keep us from knowing—She’d faded to blue, into an impassable orb, pirouetting like dust adrift in a shaft, the dance inseparable from the dancer, until the one moved too quickly—One wept. One laughed, shortly before she vanish..

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