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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you, Mary. Sometimes (always?) poetry freights the meaning in the deepest ways. --Diann McCabe, San Marcos, TX<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Mary Kurian D'Souza via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 29, 2018 1:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Order Ecumenical Community<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mary Kurian D'Souza<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Oe List ...] Call to All 9 27 2018</font>
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<p><font><b><i style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dear colleagues</i></b></font></p>
<p><font><b><i style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">I have been watching the drama over the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. </i></b></font></p>
<p><font><b><i style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Within that context and all the injustices across the world the following poem makes sense </i></b></font></p>
<p><font><b><i style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Mary</i></b></font></p>
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<p><font><b><i style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Medusa</i></b></font></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">By <b><i>Ivan M. Granger</i></b><br>
(1969 - )</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Medusa says –<br>
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I was wisdom<br>
once,<br>
black as night.<br>
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Now they call me:<br>
monster,<br>
gorgon,<br>
hideous-faced.<br>
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So I hide<br>
behind this hissing curtain<br>
of hair.<br>
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Lost<br>
little ones,<br>
breathe easy;<br>
you are free<br>
to not see.<br>
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But<br>
what is a lonely<br>
old lady to do?<br>
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I still wait<br>
for some daughter,<br>
some son,<br>
so wounded by the world,<br>
to seize these snakes<br>
and part my locks wide.<br>
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I still wait<br>
for some bold, tired<br>
wild child of mine,<br>
determined to die<br>
seeing what’s reflected<br>
in my unblinking</span></p>
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On 28-Sep-2018, at 10:20 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" id="LPlnk148153" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span>Ok, today’s Call to All is in response to the awful performance of our disgusting Old Men in the cesspit that Trump loves. Rachel Crooks is one of the nineteen women who accused The Donald of inappropriate.sexual behavior😖She is running for the Ohio
State Legislature. I just donated to her campaign! I hope Ohioans are.ready for some changes!</span><br>
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