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To wish for the impossible<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is a very sad thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To long for that<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 which can never be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To search and seek<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the rare or unique.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To discover only gaudy artifice<\/strong><\/p>\n

And counterfeit antique.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To steel against<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 such selfish perjury\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

That ever-piercing sting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To wish for the impossible<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is a very sad thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A hope for a consequence<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 must go unfulfilled.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To require an outcome<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is a poor guarantee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To risk one’s luck<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 like some gambler gone amuck,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who, despite the fact<\/strong><\/p>\n

That lightning has already struck,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clings to some <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ill-fated tree,<\/strong><\/p>\n

So certain that his fortune is willed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But a hope for a consequence<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 must go unfulfilled. <\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Summer 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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