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Spring 1987 • Vol. IX No. 2 • Poetry |

Stories

It was back when we used to listen to stories,
  our minds developing
pictures as we were taken into the elsewhere

of our experience or to the forbidden
  or under the sea.
Television was wrestling, Milton Berle,

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