such phrases as "The positive good of bodily embraces in marriage," of early puritan vintage, indicating that the church is out of date, or at least has lost contact with modern man. Most married couples I know, homosexual or heterosexual, would only smirk at such other-worldly phrases as, "If you have made your life into a thing of beauty and greatness, a common ascent towards the light in love-in-charity and the joy of Christ, and will have merited to join in the everlasting song of praise and thanksgiving in the House of the

Father, the eternal homeland of unending love." This is what it said verbatim! The final sentence isn't even a sentence!

As much beauty as there is in two people sharing the adventure of life together, the good and the bad, and the freshness that a son or daughter can give to life, how some one could have written a book that made the whole thing seem unreal, I will never know. A few more books like this one and people will give up marriage. W.E.G.

SAILOR

conspicuous with crushed cap on the hand

the head leans in a crown of wide blue collar trimmed with triple stripes of frayed white color one five pointed star for fatherland

in either corner. the brown finger spanned eyes close upon another blue or greener shifting changes of deep pool demeanor. listen to the sighing sea sound and remember dreamer fields of illinois with blackbirds musical with crows in corn. another weeps among the weeds and water who was lover, athlete, grandmas boy, an honest friend, hope of his farmer father.

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