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retirement poem

we who stood
a life on the ocean wave
i shake my hair in the wind of morning
blossoms of babies
are you awake?
still thirteen years
beautiful, tragical faces
the lightning flashed, and lifted
i love my life, but not too well
do not grieve that it is over

 



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