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POET'S CHOICE

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despite everything, and I don't mean to sound

spoiled, but please don't think I don't know

how grateful I should be

for what I do have--

I wonder whom I'm praying to.

Maybe Honest Abe himself,

craggy and splendid in his tall chair,

better than God to a kid;

Lincoln whose birthday I shared,

in whom I took secret pride: born, thus I was,

to be truthful, and love freedom.

Now with a silent collective sigh

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