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Poetry: Only time will tell

Years in pigtails and gray uniform, plodding along, chattering

Years in dusty blue, marching, turning, chanting

Years in rollers, on the phone, thinking, reading, gossiping

Years in jeans, drinking coffee, writing and dreaming

Years of love and lectures, of films and late night parties

All the years gone, with something left of each

Blue in the dust, target practice, ink and chalk

Mirrors and dances, boys and cigarettes, books and classes

Term papers, conversations and coffeee, a man and love

Half a lifetime gone - but neither clue nor hint

Nor promise nor threat of what the other half will bring.

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