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PAIRS

I laugh

At the muddi'd fool and the flannell'd oaf
I laugh uncontrollably
At the prof's hubby and ihe clown and clown's wife

Caught in an island amidst swirling floods
I laugh mercilessly
At the screen lovers
slapp'd into wakefulness by Sun's light

At the poor things

struggling up the Himalayan snows
At the boy ascetic
returning home after fourteen years

I laugh and laugh and laugh and -
At the teacher barking and braying tiny tots into silence -

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