Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 05:50:57 -0700
Title: Claire's voices

Sis sits back while Claire continues to question her.
The voices from Claire are variously shaped in intent,
Monochromatic, hue-variant,
One voice admits (quitely) ignorance
With yet another voice
Loudly proclaiming
Confidence
Evidence.
Suspicion of selfish motives,
(Pecksniffian Sis suspicions),
Another seeks understanding
Another, friendship
Another, one of the loudest,
Competition and surprisingly
Respect.
A barely visible
Shard of weltschmerz,
Sister loss
Death of a dear,
Dear one.

The sadness moves Sis to say,
"Ok, ok, Claire. I'll tell you what I can, but you have to keep in mind that
I really don't know either.  Anything I tell you is only what I feel or see
or do, ya know?"

"You gonna show me how ya do that damned beer-mug trick too?"

*peck.sniff.ian \pek-'snif-e--*n\ aj [Seth Pecksniff, character in Martin
Chuzzlewit (1843-44) by Charle]s Dickens : selfish and corrupt behind a
display of seeming benevolence : SANCTIMONIOUS.

*welt.schmerz \'velt-.shme(*)rts\ n [G, fr. welt world + schmerz pain] often
cap  1: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state
of the world with an ideal state 2: a mood of sentimental sadness.


Nope, not Thursday yet,
but it will be,
it always is!
later,
d.


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