EVERYBODY'S UP BY 6:00 BUT ME light wind moving overhead a lowing cow incessantly repeats her complaint everything is damp from a rain that tried not to disturb our sleep the little dog down the road barks sharply like palpitations has his empire been threatened? all my neighbors have risen the lights they turned on long since they are turning off room by room the flaring eastward strengthens get up! I tell myself like shouting out a victory
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