{"id":394,"date":"2004-10-07T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=394"},"modified":"2004-10-07T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2004-10-08T03:43:18","slug":"just-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2004\/10\/07\/just-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President Dick Cheney told viewers Tuesday night they could verify his claims from the vice-presidential debate at an independent Web site — factcheck.com<\/a> — but visitors to the site found a searing anti-Bush message. Cheney accidentally said “.com” instead of “.org” during the televised debate. Internet surfers who visited factcheck.com were redirected to the home page of billionaire anti-Bush activist George Soros, with the statement “Why we must not re-elect President Bush” at the top of the screen. <\/p>\n

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Snowbanks North of the House<\/p>\n

Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six
\nfeet from the house …
\nThoughts that go so far.
\nThe boy gets out of high school and reads no more
\nbooks;
\nthe son stops calling home.
\nThe mother puts down her rolling pin and makes no
\nmore bread.
\nAnd the wife looks at her husband one night at a
\nparty, and loves him no more.
\nThe energy leaves the wine, and the minister falls
\nleaving the church.
\nIt will not come closer
\nthe one inside moves back, and the hands touch
\nnothing, and are safe.<\/p>\n

The father grieves for his son, and will not leave the
\nroom where the coffin stands.
\nHe turns away from his wife, and she sleeps alone.<\/p>\n

And the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on
\nthrough the unattached heavens alone.<\/p>\n

The toe of the shoe pivots
\nin the dust …
\nAnd the man in the black coat turns, and goes back
\ndown the hill.
\nNo one knows why he came, or why he turned away,
\nand did not climb the hill.<\/p>\n

Robert Bly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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