sun14feb99
		(a saint valentine rememberance
		for the french and indian girls)
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		each girl has an _en face_ face
		and these _face on_ faces are blending
		sending memories to wash up and over the top
		on my strand -- as if swarming
		candy-fed zoo gibbons through the wires
		anonymous in one lump sum to us yet each lovingly
		identifiable to their ponytailed blonde keeper

		i do not know where this song is going
		but i am going where the orange sun is going

		yes under its nameplate shield
		the field tomb of the unknown number
		it says there longingly questingly -- _ouest_
		a word i picked up near toronto near montreal
		near ottawa -- and never ever let go. 


			Marek Lugowski
			15 February 1999
			Cincinnati, Ohio