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Red letter day

Posted by Katherine Shirley

I like playing dominoes
Paper really curls my toes
The deluxe feel of crisp new sheet
Before I write, I find quite sweet.
Yet shuffling day by sorry day
The same old forms I cannot say
Touches me with quite as much
Excitement at their slicing touch.

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