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            | Mark Cunningham |   |  |  |  | Second Story |  
            |  |   Bannister |  |  |  |    |  
            |  | A tree cut down is supposed to keep you from falling.  Yet
 it tempts you to climb,
 thus--.  The old and the weak
 
 can’t help themselves.  They
 walk to the ledge, lean
 straight into it.  Others stay back,
 or stroke the waxed pole
 
 the way you check some living
 thing that might slip away.
 Is it really a jungle out there?
 No, that’s all been cleared.
 
 But inside is still partly forest.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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