Date:         Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:22:27 EST
From: tickled pink? <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      SUB: Deafened by the Distant Fire of Canons

greta?  your words caught me on the funny bone, and here's what
happened...

tink

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Deafened by the Distant Fire of Canons
Copyright 1995 Mike Barker

I've never heard a grape roar...

but the taste of it,
and the smell of it,
and the shy little slither
as it drops its skin...
and the

BURST

of juice
that washes my mouth

say that small round orb
pressed out of the purple
was the grape.
that.
roared!
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