to a sad daughter
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To A Sad Daughterby: Michael Ondaatje
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All night long..
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the hockey pictures gaze down at you..
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sleeping in your
tracksuit..
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belligerent goalies are your ideal..
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threats of being traded..
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cuts and wounds –all these pleases you
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O my god!..
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you say at breakfast..
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reading the sports page over the Alpen..
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as another player breaks his ankle..
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or assaults the coach..
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When I thought of daughters..
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I wasn’t expecting this..
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but I like this more..
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I like all your faults..
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even your purple moods..
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when you retreat from everyone..
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to sit in bed under a quilt..
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And when I say ‘like’..
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I mean of course ‘love’..
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but that embarrasses you..
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You who feel superior to black and white moviesThought you were
moved
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by Creature from the Black Lagoon..
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one day I’ll come swimming..
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beside your ship or someone will..
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and if you hear the siren..
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listen to it..
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for if you close your ears..
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only nothing happens..
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you will never change..
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I don’t care if you risk..
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your life to angry goalies..
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creature with webbed feet..
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you can enter their caves and castles..
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their glass laboratories. Just..
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Don’t be fooled by anyone but yourself..
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This is the first lecture I’ve given you..
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You’re sweet sixteen’ you said..
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I’d rather be your closest friend..
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than your father..
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I’m not good at advice..
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you know that, but ride..
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the ceremonies..
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until they grow dark.