Kate Murphy, "Song"

Song

(coda)

They are fantasy

They bring pain

It is so much better

To appreciate what exists in this world

fine

Please stop writing

Odes on the innocence of children

Or the purity of a mountain stream

For when you cannot find these things

D.C. al fine.

Kate Murphy is a freshman from Flemington, NJ at the George Washington University.  She is studying physics and mathematics.

 
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