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R. M. Macrae
Dec 4, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/4/96
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The New Realism rapidly took root everywhere.
The merely phatic "have a nice day" went out of fashion
and disappeared.
In the church young couples swear the modified marriage
vow in which "as long as you both shall live" has been
replaced with "until you can't stand it anymore."
The fortune teller gazes at my palm and croaks "you will
live a long and dreary life."
The old-style Carnivals are long gone, but every year we
wait listlessly for the Procession of the Doomed.
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rod macrae
mac...@rikaxp.riken.go.jp
today's anagram: marcia kerr, co-ed
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