07.Longitudinal Centre
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This spring made winter an insulting opening offer,
now the passing lane
Is getter harder to negotiate,
thawing out and racing up again.
Past the Mint, where a circle of provincial
flags are flagging in the front yard,
Tired of trying to make us think
that it hasn't always been so hard.
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The sky looks seasick on the boxcar sway,
Where the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.
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So the sun pulls me out a bit and lets me go,
and I'm a vacuum power cord
In the back of that van full of kids
cleaning carpets for the Lord,
And I make a little list of sounds
I've found have comforted us in the past:
The roar of the rumble strips,
and the Mennonite meter of the flood forecast
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Or how the wind strums on those signs that say
The Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.
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Steer this boat around the snow plow spray
While the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.