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Subject:   The Gift
Name:   Irma
Date Posted:   Mar 22, 03 - 6:59 AM
Email:   irmastar@hotmail.com
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The Gift

for M.D.'s Birthday

by Irma Jackson









The gift can't be

wrapped, incubated under a tree



Genius is

a gift

not to be donated to the

Goodwill

until it's between the vest of a sky blue three piece suit

and a starched white dress shirt

among all the other possesions of physical life



Even then

the work lives on

Recorded to be shared

until English is extinct



and then

translated by archeologists

Republished

as profound ancient wisdom









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Re: The Gift by M. D. Friedman · Apr 14, 03 - 7:48 AM


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