wanted

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day steals the night away, not

                                                       its dawning

                      but its bright blazing

                                                                  needs,

           its huge                     orb of obligations

                                 certain things remind me of our

           endless                                                                 human

                                            capacity for

l  o  n  g  i  n  g

                                 raincoated kindergarteners straggling

                      in from recess

                                                       the floorboard nail still

           catching socks in the kitchen

                                                       not to

settle                         for second                -hand

                                                                             -place

                                                                                        -class

                        not to                     give up

           on                  some fresh                           wind-blessed

sense of possibility                                    but

                                                       to give

                        imagination free rein

                                                          reign

                                                                    rain