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Nunc Dimittis.(Poem)
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July 1, 2000|
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Nunc Dimittis
for Bleiben, 1988-1999
"Now you release your servant in peace ..." --LUKE 2:29
My life was saved when I was fourteen months old.
A woman came to the shelter that day--the day after her rape--and
paid sixty dollars for a watchdog.
She was a fool. I weighed seventy-seven pounds,
but I was no watchdog. She had come looking for a John Wayne,
and chose a Gandhi by mistake.
Still, for three ...
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