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prairie may green and grey perpetual drizzle a meterological meeting of minds neither summer nor winter wind carries chill but also a scent of warmth colours three dimensional against the backdrop plants somehow more alive than at any other time people still crowd streets because it is may because it is not winter but sweatered and jacketed and still complaining but quietly this is the silent season not the first squeals of spring melting snow and bicycles catcalls for freshly shaved legs miniskirts and muscle shirts pulled from the back of drawers though you still see your breath not the dull roar of summer children reinvading neighbourhoods students in the street drunk on next year's tuition no this is introspection lethargy time to read newspapers sitting in a cafe staring out the window watching the not quite rain of a prairie city may |
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