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This is a little kind of
partial portrait poem.

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It's called "Too Much to Hope."

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"Twisted body and
white-socked deformed legs,

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evidently too hard
to get stockings

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on, and little,
booted, braced feet,

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swinging along
beside the crutches

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and under the huge
wing-like shoulders.

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Always the tap and creak
and tap and creak of crutch

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and brace, in effort
always, and whir of wings

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revving up and not getting
the human female botched body

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off the ground.

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The sound never letting
up, no hushed pinewoods

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walk, no slipping unseen
through lakes of shadow.

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Has she some blessed deafness
given along with starved bones?

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It seems too much to hope."

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[APPLAUSE]

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