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$$ .d""b. .d""b. HOE E'ZINE #1084
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ss$$ "No More Sunshine"
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ by aster
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$$ $$ $$ $$ $$ $$ 05/21/00
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$$ $$ "TssT" "TssT"
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Three ladies searched through their purses. One found a comb, one
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found a lamp. The third lady, small. She looked without her eyes, they
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were focused on the mirror. She is vain, but really--she does not see
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herself--she sees an eye, and a mouth, no hair or eyes or noses. She
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has lost her sense of smell. She had lost her ability to say anything
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three times fast, but she doesn't let it stop her.
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Gray and white. Down are her eyes--down on the floor that is gray
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and white. Really white, just here, in the long hallway, all cracked
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and dirty, mopped and stained. around the corner, on a black tile, through
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the door, and out into sunshine.
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No sunshine here, the sun has died. Artificial lights blind her,
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and had her sense of smell been alive, the smell of mexican and japanese
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and italian.
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Four, three, two, one, twenty-six, forty-nine.
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"Only two more days!"
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"Before what?"
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"Before!"
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"Before WHAT?"
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"Just before, there is no what. Or, there won't be any whats."
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The old lady frowned.
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"My dear girl, how could this be?" she said to the bee buzzing in
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here ear.
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"Simply," replied the mouse in the corner, gnawing on a piece of
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cheese.
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the old woman hurried outside, leaving her hat and gloves and
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jacket and everything else behind. A RABBIT MET HER AT THE FRONT DOOR
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AND TOLD HER HE WAS THERE FOR HER BROTHER. SHE REPLIED, "MY BROTHER IS
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ALREADY GONE!" AND THAT WAS THAT.
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she rushed on outside to check for the sun, to see it was there.
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she left her sunglasses and hurt her eyes in the noon-time sun and then
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saw the moon.
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[ (c) HOE E'ZINE -- http://www.hoe.nu HOE #1084, BY ASTER - 5/21/00 ]
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