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Subject: Hi ho
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 17:51:29 EDT
From: Rob Gates <klaatu@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

Hi Brian,

	You were logged in, and I tried to zwrite you, but you didn't answer,
so you must have stepped away. I'm just sitting here feeling the flow of time
as R/O approaches...it's a sort of odd feeling this year. Maybe because I would
have graduated and left now if I had stayed the course and not dropped out. I
guess I'm feeling a little more detached than usual. I was also feeling a bit
poetic, or rather I guess a bit semi-poetic, since I wouldn't presume to judge
my writing good enough to be called poetry....but I try. I thought I'd share it
with you :-)

	By the way, I still owe you dinner......let me know when you wanna go!


	Oh well, I guess I'll just splutter off now! 


					Ciao-for-now!
							Rob




			The Difference
				by Rob Gates


		Falling or rising
		I cannot tell the difference.
		Pulled downwards by a grasping pain
		Pushed upwards by a wall of dark
		I cannot tell the difference

		I am a feather, and a rock
		Heavy and light, up and down.
		Which way is the right?
		The left?
		I cannot tell the difference

		Living on dreams, and on nightmares
		Joy and fear, hope and hell
		Which is the light?
		The dark?
		I cannot tell the difference.