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Date:         Wed, 6 Jul 1994 17:08:10 JST
Reply-To:     WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Mike Barker <barker@AEGIS.OR.JP>
Subject:      SUB:  The Long and Winding Road

I took the path less travelled?  Not quite...

Let me know what you think.

tink
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                       The Long and Winding Road
                       Copyright 1994 Mike Barker

    I pause, wipe at the cold sweat on my forehead, and look along
the dull grey path.
    Nothing to see.
    There never was.
    I take a step, and a step, and a step.
    In that place, legs move, heart thuds, arms swing, you know
you're moving.
    And you're still in the same place.
    But I keep moving, because.. maybe there is something around the
edge.
    Anything.

    "Honey?  Is that you?"
    I stop and shake my head.
    Hearing things again.  Bad sign.
    "It is!  It's you!"
    I look up, just in time to see them run towards me, in one of
those grey alleys that almost seems to meet the grey path but never
quite does.
    She looks just like... and he was... Dad?  Mom?
    Who will they be?  Who were they?  Who are they?
    Who cares?

    Then the alley turned, and the grey path went back to normal.
    I will wipe at the cold sweat on my forehead, and look at my feet.
    Nothing to see.
    There never will be.
    I took a step, and a step, and a step.
    Was I going down or up?
    Too late to ask now.
    Take a step.
    Just another day in hell.
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based on TJ and Bon teasing...

- Your parents have been to Hell too?  Did you put them there?  I know
- It would probably be more accurate to say that I met them halfway...
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