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(fade from black)
A figure looks out from inside a moving car
Blue eyes
Montreal? St. Paul?
Cello on the radio
Driving home on back roads

(cold cut)
crimson drops
onto fine stationery
shaking hand
wax seal
sigh

(cold return to car)
Rain in eye twitching two-lane focus
Pickup, Van, Blonde in a red car (always a red one)
Cellos and car stop outside
The figure looks up to second story window to
Another in window pacing
With blue eyes
Sees the car below
Stops
Has learned to hate letters

And sighs

(fade to black)

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