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The Patient Suitor

by A. K. Sykora


Who’s as patient
Come a’courting
Accustomed here
As unnanounced?

Old lord Death,
So rarely welcome
Where his slaves
Or servants danced.


© 2008 A. K. Sykora

A.K. Sykora lives in Hannover, Germany with her patient husband and three huge Forest Cats. To date she has placed 60 poems and 27 tales in the small press or on the web.

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