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There were these
400 hundred daisies
in the field
and all called out my name
and when I got close to one
another called out my name
an octave louder
each one vibrated
a greater promise
and I shaking with desire
walked out of the field
and entered into
a deserted place
and there amongst
the weeds I wept
emptyness

Irwin R. Shaw - February 22nd 1985