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In a Bus Station on Christmas Eve

by Sam Ragan

Sam Ragan

There are still travelers
Even at this late hour.
A radio is playing “Joy To the World.”
They sit and stare,
Clutching packages
Wraped as they are wrapped,
With some of the corners torn




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