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About the woman who has just gotten the news.
by martingreene
Maybe no one has posted to this poem because it presents the condition of the woman who has lost her husband, a condition which is primarily inarticulate, one in which the nature of things--as they have changed--has not yet been "accomodated." I understand the "speaker's" desire for the martini, at the poem's end, and didn't she use the word "enbalmed"? I can't see the text as I write this, but it all seems so sudden.
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