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HANG-OVER by WILMA CRITTENDEN

First Line: MORNING IS A DINGY ROOM
Last Line: AND THE LOST, LOST SEA!
Subject(s): DRINKS & DRINKING; MORNING; SEA; SUN; WINE; OCEAN;

Morning is a dingy room,
cluttered with empty bottles
and sticky gin-scented glasses. . .

A sickly sun slinks in,
revealing the soiled linens
and disorder there. . .

If this is morning,
Must morning be?

Oh, Christ for the plains
and the lost, lost sea!



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