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6 February 2008 | Vol. 7, No. 4

Epistolary

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Those things I said, I meant.

But here is the letter I should have sent:


Dear BLANK.

I shall be brief, but frank,


Terse if not curt, aloof, though unswerving—

What little we had amounted to nothing.


And yet I write you this missive, as if.

I sit on a sandbank as I scribe this,


For tonight the twilit beach is impossibly

Gorgeous. No wind, no fog, no moody


Sorts of weather. No the