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Barack's the Fire (Emily Dickinson)

By Mildred - May 29th, 2008 at 9:59 am EDT

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You cannot put a fire out;

  A thing that can ignite

Can go, itself, without a fan

  Upon the slowest night.



You cannot fold a flood


  And put it in a drawer,—

Because the winds would find it out,

And tell your cedar floor.

Thanks to Emily Dickinson for this metaphor....

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