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One November Day As I remember it, that autumn had been relatively mild. By mid-November most of the corn fields had already been picked. The leaves on the trees had dropped some weeks before. It was a time in that interlude when the high school football season, for better or for worse, was history, but the basketball season was yet to start.One November Day by ~neukomment
For those of us in our relatively quiet rural Southern Michigan community, it was a time of routine leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. Our community was somewhat off the beaten path; a good hour away from any big cities, and not on any major highways. There was a certain degree of isolation. TV, radio and the


Empty Chair... One row ahead,Empty Chair... by ~StarofHope
and there are two of them,
but I don't care anymore.
One row behind,
and there's one of you,
but I care utterly.
(something about the empty seat beside you that got to me that crawled under my skin and buried itself in my heart.)
Some are two,
and some are just us,
with empty seats
separated by one row of chairs...
..which could be eternity .which is like the moment when I wanted to fill your empty seat so we could be two .
( .just like them. But we're not like them we are us .and we can't be them .we're not two .)
(I hear the empty seat screaming the starkne