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161 DiCk Allen To a Woman Half a World Away Just about now you will be dusting the flowers or changing from your bathrobe into something nice. The kids will all be out oiling their bikes, and thinking of birthdays. The mailman will take his time up the hill. Maybe this is the morning you will go shopping to buy a percolator, or a yellow blouse. Drive, darling, careful. That book you mean to read if nothing on the set is well worth watching, I bet is something with an ending really happy. Now you are dressed and walk around the house with your blood pressure up, looking for something, anything, not in its place. The mailman comes, and this letter of course is not there. You worry just a little as you close the door. And then you turn, and your face is just so beautiful it makes me stop and wonder why I thought I would remember your body. Here, you will remember, I am in night beside a river that seems to flow through every field, learning I am sentimental past my wildest fears. ...

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