Poem of the Month May 2003
	Deaf Beethoven by William Bronk Terrible things will happen to us even as we hold each other to hold them off even as, elsewhere, atoms disintegrate and stars explode and neither are they of consequence to what really happens without we know if it does or how, the real unmodified and deaf to what the deaf Beethoven heard.
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