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"My spirit longs to be free."  How naive, and yet how true!  Here a man sits with his self-pity, in shirt and tie, a harried middle manager with nothing for the moment to do, at parking lot picnic table, under a summer sun.

-kit robinson [from 'rushes the sun parts daily', the messianic trees: selected poems 1976-2003; adventures in poetry, 2009]