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Saturdau NiUh-t Mi Lk: Bath

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WhiZetaking my usual 8atur·day Night Milk bath
I saw the Nile flowthl'u the eudde
bemperat.uree were (;0 high that the bubbl.ee
could have melted
expoHing what seernedto be my naked knees
but i.t: could have been the Lochneoe
come all the way from Ireland

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the next thing I knoio
someone had reported an eagle egg
ripping holes thru ice
eomeiaher« in Neia Hampshire
damned if' anyone knew what the t;hing l»as
a bl.ack box or the wing of an ai.rpl.ane
anyhow officials wrapped it up and
hid i -I; somewhere
telling folks that it tea» only rocke
and nrud at the bottom of that pond

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auddenly the telephone rang
leav-ing iaet: tiracke
I wandel' if one can get electrieuted
whi Le f~alk'ing in the tub
or if C01..JS
ever' groom themcelves l»ith mi-Lk

- .loy Alma lJayes