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Life in one word-
attitude
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                              A Roadside Snapping Turtle in April

If you’d spent the winter
Sleeping deep down in the mud
You’d be snappish too!
Don't say
  you wish to be a bird
  it's too easy
  to be shot at!
I engraved her name on the picnic table
Then I engraved the stone over her grave
I engraved the memory of her face on my heart
I engraved the words on the walls of  my prayers
Then out of desparation I engraved her memory in poem
In silence
we find
our real self
and authenticity--
life's very essentiality
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