Deserted

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DESERTED

It was the last thing I saw

As the paddy-wagon drove away,

With me in the back!

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The red vase.

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The trees were smaller then.

We had picked roses together

Only that morning.

Both of us knew

We were on borrowed time.

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She had known of my criminal past

From the start.

But she had loved me in spite of it.

We thought we were safe.

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The radio shattered our lives.

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'The authorities

Hope to apprehend the criminal

Any day now'.

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We knew we were on borrowed time.

So we picked roses.

They looked splendid in the red vase

On the window-sill.

They were the last thing I saw.

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Now I have returned.

The stucco has faded to a paler pink.

The trees have grown to surround the house.

The bright red vase

Still stands on the window-sill.

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But the roses have gone.

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 And so has she.

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NORTH

(An acrostic suggestion from Acrostics Only.)

Nights are bleak with scarce a light;

Owls are frozen in their flight.

Reindeer roam on the open plain;

The snow is simply frozen rain;

Humans dare not sally forth.

Life is hard in the frozen North.

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