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Musical (1964)

 

She made it through

The face of joy via gramophone, humming

The song cut in half

 

To herself—

White of the Midwest winter sky

On the

Dusky blue papered walls

On the

China-blue carpet

 

Remember?

 

The haunting last phrase of it

Chastens us

All through her slim adolescence:


The browns and yellows of somebody’s

Myriad past