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Assumptions

July 22, 2011
By Lydia_the_dwarf PLATINUM, Jamison, Pennsylvania
Lydia_the_dwarf PLATINUM, Jamison, Pennsylvania
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&quot;Following the light of the sun, we left the old world.&quot; -Christopher Columbus<br /> <br /> &quot;You live by what you thrill to, and there&#039;s the end of it&quot; -D. H. Lawrence<br /> <br /> &quot;If you&#039;re going through hell, keep going&quot; -Winston Churchill


I can only assume the crickets
are talking about me

chirping vicious rumors
in their foreign vocabulary
which cuts through the descending summer night
like heat lightning.

I can only assume this because
why else, then,
would they suddenly
stop

as I walk by on this darkening June evening,
cease their lyrical chatter
as I pass the large bush
in which they hold their
private cricket council,

discussing most fervently each night
what I can only assume
are matters of grave societal importance:

the haughty summer breeze,
the arrogant, silent moon.

The author's comments:
One can never trust a cricket.

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