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Application For A Driving License

by Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Two birds loved
in a flurry of red feathers
like a burst cottonball,
continuing while I drove over them.
I am a good driver, nothing shocks me.




Quotes of the Day

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

• George Bernard Shaw



Poems of the Day
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    Late Spring
    by Henry van Dyke
    I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- the dear desire Of every heart that longs For bloom, and fragrance, and the ruby fire