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Thank you.  I really: Thank you.  I really appreciate your validation of this poem.  When I write in this form, I try to make some of the lines sound like overheard statements without an accompanying context.  During my first real summer job, I worked for the County as a gopher on a survey crew.  On Fridays, we only worked until lunch time, spending the remaining four hours visiting various bars in different parts of the county.  I could not, of course, consume alchohol, so I drank more iced tea that sumer than I ever had before (confirming, or perhaps establishing, a lifelong personal compulsion to consume iced tea), and I also heard snippets of conversations, from other bar patrons, without very much context.  I began to love this kind of "overheard," not for the sake of being nosey, but of just hearing the language doing different things.  The next summer (during which I held the same job, but by that time we were monitored too closely to visit bars on Friday afternoons),  I had the same experience on the c.b., when me and my best friend, mobile on weekend nights, would "drive into range" of some very distant conversations, and would overheard some of the words without an accompanying context.  Sorry for the verbosity of my reply.