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Coming here/ ^6 Y2 ?( {! t: t* c
Settling down
8 h" _8 f7 }# H7 |! jwas easier for you
6 u. x( c# S! H5 u* ]0 oHomesick
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set the clock's dark hands
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Days inched into years! O" J6 b. ?: q7 v- r( v2 I, E4 R
I watched others
) {7 z. e n- i. ccome and go back0 D3 A7 d' t! d" U+ d
go and come back7 N4 z* f, n% ^1 i/ C# c
We never did
, H# G5 k( }; ?8 D- l* Rnor can we now
3 D8 M% ~; `9 u6 aresettle in the old country
( F9 Z5 k) _2 e4 D. {- g% ]& lleave our children
* J; p, |* g. b: a; \and their children
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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