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Love letter (Lyric) by zodiac

Hey bellwether, you've been letting days run by untended-to, when but for wanting some small pleasure I'd have held this ship together. Hey lackadaisy, say, Don't shake the baby, don't break us with light. Now the phone is ringing, the porch door's swinging my back 'cross a blaze of night.

zodiac 17-Nov-05/11:35 AM
This is a jingle. It's not an old post, just a new poem posted over an old post. I permit myself to do this because I've gone 8 months on this site without posting before, so I tell myself I'm not the problem. I've never dashed out a door, I'm just imaginative. The only unobvious metaphors are (a) my wife has a compound-word last-name so I always call her by compound words, including bellwether but also peashooter and lawnmower, among others, and (b) shaken baby syndrome. Look it up.




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