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THE ART OF DECEPTION

 

Script writers, movie directors, have their manual of tricks

for eliciting tears.  His beautiful face, the halt in her eyes,

neither one hearing or needing to hear, their first gaze like this.

Or love outlingering death.  A pain we know or can guess.

The grief a delta of brooks on a telegram.

The pain we have now pays for the happiness then.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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