Well, three p.m. has come and gone, and all I got in the post was a flyer for window cleaning and another for the Green Linnet Kebab House. At times like these, I turn to Alycia Smith's poetry. Here's her LOVE ATHWART, recently co-3rd winner in the Tifton Gazette Easter Verse competition (winner: Henry Gobb). I reproduce it in full:

When clouds were grey you gave me a lift -
Not with a smile or a glass of champagne -
But struggling in first up Tifton Hill
In your Austin Allegro in the pouring rain.

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