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lil  ·  4218 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Has Not Been a Good Day, and It's Only 2:00 p.m.

You're right. The poem is full of longing, passion and rejection, but I wanted to show two other things in the poem when I read it at the wake.

1) the passionate heart symbolized by the blood red nails 2) the way Karen was multi-talented in both painting and words and the way she turned the tears into art. Yes, she tore the page into pieces -- but the poem, another page, survived.

Thank you for your thoughts and memories and comments about Ralph.